Let's solve the Public Toilet crisis.

I would have to be affordable (.50c or €1. €2 absolute Max), attended by an actual person to stop messing, not access by technology as these things have a knack of breaking down.

I think they are better pay toilets as people have (slightly) more respect for something that isn't 100% free.

Also time to grow up and provide injection centres so toilets won't be used as injection sites.

A loyalty system for a jacks is a bit much I think. It's turning bodily motions into a commodity.

Overall though the public toilet situation certainly needs to be looked at.

Maybe they should install toilets inside the new "robo-trees", perhaps for another 350.000€ these monuments to science could be fitted with a second filtration system, a sort of fecal colander to extract the H2O (water for the chemically illiterate) from the passers-by's 'depositions' and expel it into the atmosphere, getting some much needed moisture back into the air. Tbh I do find that the air at Grand Parade tends to dry up my nasal membranes more than any other area in Cork city.

First of all, it’s not a crisis.

I know people get a bit emotes about peeing , but come on.

Whats wrong with using an existing establishment? Library, cafe , pub, gallery, opera house etc. Even some big shops (Debenhams? ) have loos. I know well the short notice of a toddler needing to go , but I have never been caught short in town.

What are you doing for hours in the city not going to anything at all? just walking the streets? It’s a commercial center.

if it’s after pub closing time, then that’s another matter, I think the weird British hangover of pub closing times is archaic and needs to go.

and the “shandy “ ? You can get a cup of tea in a pub, usually 2 euro, or a glass of tap water, or cordial.

What?

Ever hear of a thing called tourism? People coming into town to use an air coach at all hours say?

Business owners dont really appreciate people coming in using their jacks when they don't want a meal or a drink.

Not everyone has a well functioning digestion system or bladder either that they can keep it in and go all the way back to the place they're staying. Bit of a "I'm alright Jack" off of you, I don't really need it so screw everyone else.

Definitely is a crisis.

It's another public facility that's been de facto forced on to private sector.

The lockdown made this clearly apparent. With private sector shutdown there were no toilets anywhere. Not in parks, beaches, nowhere.

Problem all over Ireland and UK.

It's always been a penny pinching affair.

Most places once you ask or acknowledge you need to visit the shrine won't turn you away. From my experience establishments don't like people darting to the back of house whilst averting eye contact, for obvious reasons.

A stop gap solution before you start talking about digging up the city center or producing mobile toilets would be to get one/some establishment/s to take part in few varying trial solutions. Talk to establishements, ask questions and listen, get the feelers out. Something has to be given to the establishements in return.

Maybe donations from toilet goers could be pooled into a wage for a mobile cleaner, eventually may even cover toillet roll expenditure or fresh flowers/air filters.

Point being think outside the box with what already exists and start small.

Libraries, Museums , public transportation and Galleries are all public facilities. All with toilets.

They are in the city center, which is where we are talking about. They are all open, and all of them without payment.

You’ll have to give a bit more detail there on the second comment for me to respond, otherwise it’s just being snotty and insulting for the sake of it.

There are loads of museums and galleries , I assume you're being facetious so I won't list them for you.

Is there really that much of a difference between buying a 1 euro bar of chocolate and paying 3 euro for a robo-toilet?

Thanks for confirming you don't bother reading posts you are replying to. "Panic driven social anxiety" 😂🤣 What a load of utter bollocks you are posting.

Ok, I know boards has changed the quoting, so it's easy to lose track of the topic at hand, but what beaches are in the city center? That's the thread we are on.

Even mentioning beaches (still none in the city tho), I know of beaches with toilets. Warren Strand, Garrestown etc.

And maybe again it's the new weird format, but I asked why the poster can't ask to use a toilet. I have family and friends with IBD, they are well able to ask to use one when they need. When I was in the city with toddlers being potty trained, it never took me long So I don't get why IBD would stop anyone from speaking. Unless, it's social anxiety overlaid on top, some kind of issue with strangers, which is a real thing. Either pre-existing, or pandemic created.

The problem isn't limited to the city center. It's a national problem.

Dismissing it as phobia when there are more obvious and immediate issues. Is disingenuous..