Dublin’s Peacock Theatre will now have wheelchair access, Peter Crawley, of Irish Theatre Magazine, reports.

Forty-five years after its opening, the theatre has finally undergone an 80.000 euro refurbishment, including the installation of an elevator at street level. The building now meets Dublin City Council regulations.

“It’s more than forty years coming, frankly,” Abbey Director Fiach Mac Conghail, told Irish Theatre Magazine . The development corrects a situation he considered “a great source of moral embarrassment”.

Last year, Mac Conghail picketed his own theatre in promotion of disability rights.