Sir, – Tom McElligott writing on cinema attendance in Kerry (Letters, September 21st) urges me to relay my own cinematic experience last Sunday when my spouse and I decided to go see Róise & Frank, an Irish produced film, at the Pálás Cinema in Galway.
Looking forward to sitting in a theatre with fellow cinephiles we found ourselves in an eerily completely empty cinema for the entire length of the film.
I oddly found myself missing the latecomers, the smell of popcorn, the coughing, the children crying, the rustling and even the guy who laughs when there’s nothing whatsoever to laugh about.
– Yours, etc,
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MARY WILKINSON,
Barna,
Galway.