Going to the cinema has always been a favourite hobby for Irish people.
Cinema attendances have increased for the first time since the economic recovery, with admissions going to 4.7 million in the first three months of last year - more than any previous year since 2008.
Aoife Barry of thejournal.ie, Karl Geraghty, director of the Stella Cinema, and Sunniva O'Flynn, Head of Film Programming at the Irish Film Institute, joined us to discuss this.
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