Thank you, Grandad, the hero of Irish cinema Leo Ward

Thank you, Grandad, the hero of Irish cinemaLeo Ward's love affair with film has lasted more than half a century, writes his granddaughter Alison O'RiordanROLL IT: Alison O'Riordan with her grandfather Leo Ward, MD of the Ward Anderson Cinema Group, in the IMC Dun Laoghaire

IT WAS because of him that I was the hit of my primary school in March each year. Everyone wanted to attend my birthday party because they knew it would involve a private screening of a film in the Savoy cinema on

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