Nicola Horgan

What a wonderful day to welcome our next cohort of @NCIRL & @welfare_ie graduates & our first to graduate under our recently awarded Workplace of the Future Designation @IRLDeptPER #EducationChangesLives

I praise The gifts of the river. Its shiftless and glittering Re-telling of a city #EavanBoland

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet #ThomasMoore #Avoca

@RobLooseCannon ...well you may need to sit down when I tell you that apparently the urinals kept exploding because of water pressure issues in such a tall building🤣...took afew sets of porcelain until they found the balance 🌊

@NHRConsulting 😂 now this is the first hand accounts and experiences that I love 😂 cheers for that. Theres defo someone reading this that's getting an idea 💡

There’s an abandoned theatre buried in the basement of Busáras station. The Eblana Theatre once seated 240 people. It takes its name from one of the ancient settlements that gave birth to Dublin, first cited by Ptolemy in 140 AD. Eblana`s brutalist design, without wings or traditional forms of stage architecture, was in keeping with the architect Michael Scotts Busáras station aesthetic. Although the acoustics were apparently excellent, as was the intimate ambience. The main Busáras structure took six years to build, construction starting in 1947 and finishing in 1953, at a then stratospheric cost over £1 million. And it was controversial from the start. This modern piece of architecture was paradoxically dated looking from the get-go. The Eblana Theatre itself opened on the 17th of September 1959. For the first two years, the vaguely depressing theatre entertained passengers until their buses came, showing newsreel clips on a cinema screen. Thespian and director Phyllis Ryan`s (1920 –2011) Gemini Productions drama company took over the lease and showcased the idiosyncratic little space during the Dublin Theatre Festival. This prestigious, independent alternative to the Abbey Theatre championed playwrights like John B. Keane Hugh Leonard and Brian Friel. But even this veneer of artistic glamour did little to elevate the Eblana. One constant source of scorn against the little space was its placement close to the large seedy bus station public toilets. Anecdotes abound of intoxicated travellers strolling into the middle of a play, seeking a place to take a leak before their bus arrived. This led to the witty insult that Busáras had "The only public toilet in Dublin with its own theatre." After Gemini productions parted ways the Andrew's Lane Theatre briefly took over, then the Northside Theatre Company. Eblana`s days were numbered , and it closed in 1995. There was much talk of refurbishment and relaunch as the new home of the Fry Model Railway in 2012. However, the estimated millions in funding never manifested. The most recent plan was converting the unique space in to a training centre for Bus Éireann staff, with Dublin City Council granting planning permission.This is earmarked to happen when Bus Éireann relocates its headquarters from Broadstone to the Busáras site. Until then, though, the errie theatre has become a bizarre time capsule. Its tattered seats, creaking floorboards, and peeling posters gently dilapidating in the subterranean Dublin air. The abandoned auditorium feels like a spectral audience and cast has just stepped out a moment ago, as if it could very easily screen horror movies to an assembly of ghosts at night after the rest of Busáras has shut up shop and gone home. Buy the Dublin Time Machine a pint and support the DTM Book ko-fi.com/buchanandublin…

Utterly Glorious ❣️

@oldnurse55 I add about an inch of ginger and 2 carrots...delish to drink and makes a great sorbet...

Supposed to be good for BP. 🙄 Stick celery 2 apples 2 beetroot Flavour improvement welcome.

@JamesCarlislef1 @DeirdreGiblin1 @BuswellsHotel @OireachtasNews ...for starters

@DeirdreGiblin1 @BuswellsHotel @OireachtasNews You know I think you should be Taoiseach 👌🌞 🇮🇪

#100daysofwalking walk to @BuswellsHotel pit stop on the way to meetings in Leinster House @OireachtasNews 🚶‍♀️☀️🕶️

@DeirdreGiblin1 Stalwart of joy ❣️

My magnolia tree on this sunny morning ☀️

@DeirdreGiblin1 Proper butter lake & waterfall too

Baked ham, parsley sauce & my late father’s take on a combination of colcannon & champ for the day that’s in it ☘️ Happy St Patrick’s Day ☘️

Pure Pat Ingoldsby💛

@HelenORahilly Absolutely not...full service costs less

@DeirdreGiblin1 @DublinAirport @dublin_damo Absolutely agree Deirdre and @dublin_damo... the human & personal welcome is everything...well that and hopping on the bus home no matter what time I land...😀

@NHRConsulting @DublinAirport Oh the joys of being a northsider for such easy access to the airport & fully agree with @dublin_damo that, in the main, @DublinAirport is a pleasure to depart from & arrive back in to. I love arriving back in to the airport knowing that I will be home in approx. 30 mins 😊

Are your ears burning @DublinAirport ...😊

@DeirdreGiblin1 Apples & trees ❣️

On International Women’s Day I want to recognise the young women who have so much to contribute to the world especially my daughter Kate & in particular her volunteer work which resonates with #IWD2026 theme #GiveToGain

@kamfinsa Watch out for Lawrence of Arabia...filmed there & surrounds also in March but 1962...

I'm at the very OTT #PlazaDeEspana; tourist must-see it undoubtedly is, but it also feels like a drawing-room for Sevillanas and Sevillanos, so many are here jogging, walking dogs, or just hanging out. My knees are sore! #Seville #100daysofwalking

@DeirdreGiblin1 Bernie & Donal Wedding Belles 💛

Sunday morning daffs 🌼😊

@DeirdreGiblin1 @MichealMartinTD @lawlessj @LordMayorDublin What a fabulous celebration of Education Changing Lives Deirdre...well done on such a fabulous event and surrounded my many @ibec_irl colleagues to boot...

Looking forward to welcoming Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD, Minister @lawlessj @LordMayorDublin, many public representatives, students, staff & all guests to today’s official launch of our National College of Ireland Spencer Dock building in our 75th anniversary year!

@DeirdreGiblin1 @KerrygoldIRL ...I'd even forgive the sprouts 🤢

Ribeye with crispy spuds, brussels sprouts, peas, onions, mushrooms, roast tomatoes, turnip & a dollop of @KerrygoldIRL 🥩🥔🍅🧅🍄‍🟫🫛🧈😋

@DeirdreGiblin1 Baggage limits/targets Queen!! 🏋‍♂️

My bowls from Marrakesh 🧡

Duende delight ❣️