Movies@ Ltd. is a cinema chain in the

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. The company opened its first multiplex cinema at the

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on 1 October 2005, with 12 screens. Other sites include the Pavilions Centre,

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(11 screens) which opened in mid November 2006, and

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, Co. Wexford. A branch was proposed to be located in

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(10 screens) in

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2007, but has not yet opened. The company bears some resemblance to the largest Irish cinema chain, the

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group, in that it is a family owned business run by members of two families, in this case the O'Gorman family (who ran the Ormonde Cinema in

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) and the Spurling family who are also involved in rural cinemas, albeit having closed one (Enniscorthy) due to being in relative proximity to a Movies@ site.

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