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.

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1. >Eblana`s brutalist design, without wings or traditional forms of stage architecture, was in keeping with the architect Michael Scotts Busáras station aesthetic

   You can just say it’s too small to have a backstage like. Feckin notions.

2. This is going to be reposted an awful lot I think.

3. Would make a good comedy venue

4. Is it possible that it could be repurposed to house some Ukrainian people?

5. How long before some poor tourist goes looking for it and ends up in the worst toilets in Europe.

6. Ptolemy appears to position Eblana to the north of Dublin Bay, so it does not seem to be Dublin. I have seen Loughshinney suggested as the location.

   I saw a stage version of the Rocky Horror Picture Show in that theatre in the early 1990s.