I am afraid that the pub is definitely closing. Although reasonably busy, rent is very high and other overheads such as bouncers at the weekend all eat into the profits. It becoming a cinema is not so definite but that is what the staff have been told.
A very close friend of mine, Pat Cooney, could always be seen at the front table wearing his flat cap from 9am every morning. Pat always had a laugh and joke with everybody and the staff loved him.
Sadly Pat passed away very recently, still awaiting funeral arrangements, but this news would have been a terrible blow to him.