Council says no funding for accessible toilets at Cork beaches 

Council officials urged to upgrade beachside toilets to provide special changing facilities for disabled people

The public toilets building in Bantry, Co Cork, may be coulourful, but they are not accesssible. Picture: Denis Minihane.

Disabled people will not be able to access special changing areas for themselves at beachside toilets in Co Cork, because the majority are way too small to accommodate such facilities and the cash-strapped council doesn't have the money to build more modern ones.

Independent Bantry-based councillor, Danny Collins, had urged council officials to upgrade beachside toilets to provide special changing facilities for disabled people, but said he was very disappointed with the response.