Cillian Murphy and wife Yvonne McGuinness buy iconic Irish cinema

Cillian Murphy and his woman Yvonne McGuinness person bought a cinema the Oscar-winning histrion utilized to sojourn arsenic a child.

The mates volition refurbish The Phoenix Cinema successful Dingle, County Kerry, south-west Ireland, adjacent year.

The venue, which had antecedently been utilized arsenic a creation hall, had been successful cognition for much than 100 years, and connected the marketplace for 3 earlier Murphy and McGuinness bought the building.

Oppenheimer and Peaky Blinders prima Murphy, from Cork, said: "I've been going to spot films astatine The Phoenix since I was a young lad connected summertime holidays.

"My dada saw movies determination erstwhile helium was a young antheral earlier me, and we've watched galore films astatine The Phoenix with our ain kids. We recognise what the cinema means to Dingle."

McGuinness added: "We privation to unfastened the doors again, grow the originative imaginable of the site, re-establishing its spot successful the taste cloth of this unsocial town."

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The Phoenix is the lone cinema successful the tourer country of the Dingle Peninsula, and without it, the closest different movie theatre for residents of the municipality is successful Tralee, astir 30 miles away.

It opened successful 1919 and was reconstructed doubly successful the decades that followed, aft fires damaged the building.

Its erstwhile owners struggled to support The Phoenix going amid the COVID-19 pandemic and unopen the cinema's doors successful November 2021, citing rising costs, falling attendance and challenging accumulation terms.

Murphy took awards play by tempest this year, winning a Golden Globe, a Bafta and an Oscar for his show arsenic the titular quality successful Oppenheimer.

Next year, helium volition reprise 1 of his astir well-known roles by playing Tommy Shelby successful a movie mentation of Peaky Blinders.