Landlord in bid to shut porn cinema

Date Published: 10-Jul-2009

THE owner of a premises that is being used as an adult cinema in the city is to bring proceedings against the tenants in the Circuit Criminal Court on Monday in a bid to have them evicted.

R Byrne Concrete Ltd. of Victoria Place, Eyre Square, was fined €1,000 before Galway
District Court in January for the unauthorised use of the building at Unit 3, Liosbán Industrial Estate on the Tuam Road.

The company was also ordered by the court at the time to have its tenants, the Jade Winters Adult Store and Cinema, evicted by the end of June. The eviction never took place and the City Council decided to bring R Byrne Concrete Ltd back before the District Court this week for noncompliance of the court order and for continuing the offence since the court order was made.

A solicitor for the Council told…