Cora Mulroy and her sister Breda decided to open a cinema, Mayo Movie World, a red-carpeted seven-screen cinema, in Castlebar Co Mayo 22 years ago.  The sisters bought the town’s old bacon factory and opened a bowling alley first, but then an opportunity came knocking to bring the silver screen to the biggest town in Co Mayo. The Spurling family, who own the Movies @Cinema company, contacted builder Joe Mulroy, the father of the Mulroy sisters, to build a cinema in Co Mayo. With the approval of his daughters, Mulroy converted some of the extra space in the factory into…

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