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A PUBLIC TOILET built decades ago in Dublin has been demolished.
The well known structure, one of 70 public toilets in Dublin, was located across the road from the RDS, at the junction of Anglesea Road and Merrion Road.
These public conveniences – some built over 100-years-ago – stretched from Harolds Cross to Howth. They were frequently used back when they were first built, as many people in Dublin did not have an indoor toilet and some had none at all.
As recently as 1990, there were still 33 staff working as public toilet attendants and some remained opened for part of the 90s, including those on O’Connell Street and Stephen’s Green. However these were eventually closed too.
Dublin City Council put the location up for auction last year but the decision was later made to demolish the building and the work was carried out yesterday.
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Devastated to see this go. Many, many wonderful memories in that public toilet.
I’ve said too much.
No No Capitaine
Keep going … No point in stoping now !
That’s what she said!
Now yer taking the piss !’m
“Iconic” ?????
‘Iconic Public Toilet’. Why do those words sound so wrong?
Noooo! It’s our cistern chapel!
Ha ha love it
Why don’t we still operate supervised public toilets in the city centre exactly? Surely people receiving the social welfare can be placed in jobs such as this. Structured, targeted, planned welfare where people may have to work a little to receive payments or indeed moderately boosted payments would surely benefit the country.
That’s a crap idea
Yes, putting the poor to work in our toilets will surely raise the quality of life for everybody in twenty-first century Ireland.
A trench coat and sun glasses were left overnight to remember all the good times…
Sure everyone uses Mc Donalds for that job now !
Another cottage industry gone!
Iconic toilet ??. What went on in there
Leopoldo Bloom or some such probably stopped for a shite after his feed of kidneys, or something
Strange how you look at something like this and all of a sudden you can smell it!
I saw a sign in a public toilet the other day: “Please leave this toilet as you would expect to find it”
So I left 3 dead hookers in there and a line of coke on the toilet seat.
Now we really are so poor
that we have not got a pot to piss in
Damn george michael !
Poor management by Dublin Corporation they can’t organise a few toilets, it shows how little they think of the locals that they have closed all the ones they were there.
That
Are there no public toilets now ,
Good choice. It looks like an eyesore.
Derelict my Balls..bridge
Knowing DCC there are probably 15 ‘Micro’ Spar’s on the way…
They’ve ripped out every public seating in the city at this stage as well.
Welcome to Dublin 2014- the most unwelcome city in the world. It’s basically just a large tacky shopping center at this stage.
What a wonderful sense of proportion you have Marko – Baghdad is indeed furious at losing its Most Unwelcome City In The World crown.
Is there something going to be built in its place? Dublin really should have public toilets, they don’t need to be manned.
Ah yes iconic… The louvre, the Empire State Building…..a public toilet…..
One councillor is calling for those responsible for its destruction to be beheaded
They have just demolished the old public toilets on Terenure this morning. Someone’s got it in for public toilets!
Green party head office, gone.
While we are busy knocking things down…others see them in a more constructivemlight…
The old public toilet in Terenure has been taken down too, all rubble this morning. I don’t know if I’d call it “iconic” but it was a bit of an old landmark.
The water charges fecked everything
Shit happens!
George Michael will have no reason to come to Dublin now
Construction industry must be desperate if they need to create work rebuilding a shi**r
Now that they are demolishing them will they demolish the one in Dolphins Barn as it is just a rubbish dump,
i remember these toilets but not for good reasons for as a young lad back in the day they where full off perverts showing off there bits and pieces, disgusting places they where i for one was glad to see them closed.
This country is full of vandals
Mustn’t have been willing to pay the LPT & Water Taxes.
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