Dec de Feck

And so it begins…

@RobLooseCannon That theatre used to ring with laughter. Rosaleen Linehan and Des Keogh did their comedy shows there. I had many happy evenings watching them in that basement. It wasn't the fanciest location and the blue lighting in the Busaras toilets was always scary but it was a great spot.

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…

THIS IS WHAT THEY DON'T TELL YOU.. How many of you went to school and were never told that Belgium killed 12 million Congolese people?

Absolute bombshell. The founder of the Zionist Stern Gang literally wrote to Nazi Germany in 1941 offering an alliance with Hitler. He called Jews a master race, Arabs a slave race, and advocated for the total annihilation of Palestinians.

Big push across our papers to promote State "investment" (spending) in "primarily military" companies in Ireland. Repeal by Govt of the existing prohibition to come before Dail. On days like this, reminded of Pope Francis and his Urbi et Orbi speech three years ago...

Rise in children trafficked here to work in cannabis grow-houses is ‘only the tip of the iceberg’ New figures released by the Department of Justice show 18 minors were identified out of a total of 114 victims of human trafficking last year. This compares to 10 children identified out of 67 victims of human trafficking in 2024, based on figures released to Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín by Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan. #ChildTrafficked #IrelandisBroken independent.ie/irish-news/ris…

The UN mediator proposed that Palestinian refugees had the right to return to their homes in 1948. The very next day, Zionist operatives ambushed his motorcade in Jerusalem and assassinated him. They literally murdered a UN official to stop peace.

My page got suspended for no reason, they don't want us to talk about the genocide happening in our State💔🇵🇸

Short history of #Palestine 🇵🇸 1/ The earliest records of 'Palestine' come from Egypt in the time of Ramses III (c. 1150 BCE), the people referred to as Palestinians in Hieroglyphic texts. This predates any mentioned of any biblical Kingdom of Saul/Israel ...

Seyed M. Marandi: Total War - Attacking Nuclear Plants, Desalination & Infrastructure youtu.be/Fxt8JjPz_Rw

Palantir - named in my report for complicity in Israel’s crimes - is a threat to all of us. Palestinians were only the first in line.

When will it be enough? What will it take for this government and health service to acknowledge the catastrophic failings of care for our children? When will it finally get better? Chloe deserved so much better, Harvey deserved so much better, Dollceanna deserved so much better, Cathal deserved so much better, Tamara deserved so much better, The children and families still here and still fighting deserve so much better. @CarrollJennifer @SimonHarrisTD @MichealMartinTD is this the kind of Ireland you are proud of? So much for cherishing all the children of the nation equally. #JusticeForChloe #JusticeForHarvey #StepUpOrStepDown

HSE spending on outsourcing radiation therapy for public cancer patients tops €113m since 2020 - ✍️Michael McHale A staffing crisis in radiation therapy, with posts left vacant, as well as ageing hospital equipment are being blamed for the move towards outsourcing the potentially life-saving treatment. #HSE #Cancer #Radiation independent.ie/irish-news/hea…

It's the neoliberal ideology. Wrecking all public service.

Prof. Marandi on how Iran built its missile program from absolute zero 13 men sent to Syria in 1984 with orders to acquire knowledge no one would sell them From Scud reverse-engineering to the Sejjil — liquid fuel to solid fuel, foreign lineage to indigenous design The lineage is wild when you trace it back: Russian theorist Tsiolkovsky wrote the math in 1903. USA's Goddard built the first liquid rocket in 1926. The Nazis weaponized it into the V-2. The Soviets captured the factories after WWII and reverse-engineered it into the Scud. Soviets sold Scuds to Syria and Libya, which then passed it on to Tehran. The AK-47 democratized infantry warfare. The Scud democratized deterrence. The Shahed is democratizing air power; cheap, mass-produced, and pointed the other way.

French judge Nicolas Gouyou, who issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu at the ICC: • Visa and Mastercard have blocked all my cards • I cannot make any purchases • I am a judge, yet treated like a criminal • Judges, lawyers, and politicians are being intimidated • A colleague told me my name won’t be removed from the blacklist until Trump’s term ends • Despite intervention by the French president, U.S. authorities have not responded

RTE claim that PBP S has "nine local councillors" on the RTE Six One News. They won 13 in #LE24 and lost Madeleine Johannson in 2025, leaving 12, 1.3% of the 949 local councillors nationwide. And unless there's been recent unpublicised resignations, they still have 12.

@rtenews x.com/BowesChay/stat… This technology is coming soon to Dublin, Paris and Berlin.

Cuban authorities are working to restore power to the island after the second nationwide blackout in less than a week, as the grid struggles due to an aging infrastructure and a US oil blockade rte.ie/news/world/202…

@rtenews Ireland’s SHAME -Govt Are Failing Our #Disabled Children x.com/TomClonan/stat…

The deputy governor of the Central Bank of Ireland has said that Ireland "will have an important role to play" in progressing the digital euro project when it takes over the EU presidency in the second half of this year rte.ie/news/business/…