Peig would be pleased as Great Blasket to get a toilet

Author Peig Sayers wrote about her life on Great Blasket Island, living in two homes during the near-50 years she spent on the island.

It's a happy ending of sorts, and maybe one that would even have made Peig Sayers crack a smile of satisfaction — Great Blasket Island is to get a toilet.

The Irish Examiner's report that visitors to the island had been defecating in the ruins of author's home has prompted junior minister Patrick O’Donovan to say that he expected the facilities would be in place by next summer.