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Tue 12 Dec 2009Lights out for the final show at Cork's Kino arthouse cinema
AS THE lights were switched off at the Kino Cinema for the last time, there was a strange air of unreality. For many regulars, it still had not sunk in that Cork was losing its arthouse cinema.
Kino founder and owner Mick Hannigan was stoically phlegmatic in a brief address from the front of the near-packed 188-seater cinema as he paid tribute to staff past and present who had journeyed with him in the showing of more than 1,000 films.
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