Community memory
Boards.ie memory links The Helix with old memories and stories and gossip. PubHub V1 treats this as published forum memory: not a settled fact, but a linked record of what people said, remembered, joked about, or claimed online.
2 source leads · 2006-2016
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Independent reporting and heritage records on this pub, drawn from a curated list of Irish news outlets, Revenue Commissioners, NIAH, and the Dictionary of Irish Architects. Every claim links to its primary source.
Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref N2271 as a Publican's Licence (ordinary) - Theatre for THE HELIX at DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, COLLINS AVENUE, GLASNEVIN in DUBLIN CITY with UAC MANAGEMENT LIMITED as licensee.[1]
The Irish Times reported in 2002 that The Helix was designed by A\&D Wejchert and cost GBP28 million, with GBP5 million from the Department of Education and Science and the rest raised privately by Dublin City University.[2]
The same Irish Times feature said the building included a helix-shaped staircase, three circular levels, and social areas visible from other levels around a hollow centre.[2]
The Irish Times reported that President Mary McAleese opened The Helix in October 2002 as a new performing arts centre at DCU.[3]
That opening report said the centre contained three auditoria, including The Space experimental theatre, and that Mahony Hall seated 1,200.[3]
The Irish Times feature also reported that The Helix was to be operated by UAC Management Ltd, described by its director as one of DCU's companies.[2]
Community memory
Archive time depth
10 years of archive-metadata distance across 2 dated Boards.ie archive leads.
Stories and local colour
The Boards.ie trail has story-shaped signals for this pub: odd details, gossip, atmosphere, nights out or local colour that may be useful leads for a fuller memory page.
story gossip
Boards.ie gives The Helix 2 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes and story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories. This is not verified pub history; it is a mapped trail of what people said online and where PubHub can go next for local colour.
2006 · memory, story
This is labelled forum memory: useful gossip, local claims and colour from source-linked public discussion, not PubHub treating the claims as settled fact.
PubHub read of the archive
These cards turn the raw forum trail into practical page leads: gossip, character texture, time depth, source depth, and review warnings where the match pattern is broad.
story_gossip
Boards.ie gives The Helix 2 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes and story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories. This is not verified pub history; it is a mapped trail of what people said online and where PubHub can go next for local colour.
time_depth
The Helix has 2 dated source leads from 2006 to 2016, giving the page a 10-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.
source_depth
PubHub has 2 unique Boards.ie source URLs tied to this pub-memory record. Each public lead stays linked so corrections can point to the exact forum source.
Story leads
The Helix has 2 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories and stories and gossip. The strongest current lead points into "A Nation of Addicts and bad attitude toward it"; PubHub should keep it labelled as forum memory, then use corrections and source review to turn the best fragments into fuller local stories.
2006 · memory, story · lead score 119
2016 · memory · lead score 105
Archive profile
The Helix has 2 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories and stories and gossip. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.
V1 source
Boards.ie readable-first raw review queue
Memory shape
Old memories and stories and gossip
Correction loop
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V1 shows linked forum memory and local talk as memory, not as PubHub fact-checking.
Old memories
Boards.ie memory links this pub with older recollections, changed habits, former routines, or remembered visits.
Stories and gossip
Boards.ie memory links this pub with story-shaped talk, gossip, rumours, and local claims worth surfacing as forum memory.
Archive source trail
These are linked Boards.ie leads from pre-2026 discussion. PubHub V1 shows the linked trail as forum memory and uses the correction path for bad matches, missing context, or pages that need checking.
2016Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77
2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77
Boards.ie forum memory
Boards.ie memory links The Helix with old memories and stories and gossip. PubHub V1 treats this as published forum memory: not a settled fact, but a linked record of what people said, remembered, joked about, or claimed online.
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