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Fri 12 Dec 2006To the Light House in SmithfieldDUBLIN will get a new four-screen arthouse cinema late next year with the opening of Light House at Smithfield. The 600-seat, custom-built venue is proceeding with investment from developers Fusano Properties Ltd and grants from the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Cultural Cinema Consortium, a joint initiative of the Arts Council and the Irish Film Board.The complex will be operated by Neil Connolly and Maretta Dillon, who ran the two-screen Light House Cinema on Middle Abbey Street until it closed in 1996.