Cork's English Market traders kick up stink over public toilet plans 

Business owners in Cork’s historic English Market say they are “aghast” at city council proposals to spend up to €100,000 adapting the council-owned former Hilser jewellers building, located between the market’s landmark Grand Parade entrances, into one of the city’s biggest public toilets

Traders in the English Market have kicked up a stink over local authority plans to develop a public toilet next to its entrance. Picture: Larry Cummins.

Traders in one of Ireland’s top food markets have kicked up a stink over local authority plans to develop a public toilet at its entrance.

The business owners in Cork’s historic English Market say they are “aghast” at city council proposals to spend up to €100,000 adapting the council-owner former Hilser jewellers building, located between the market’s landmark Grand Parade entrances, into one of the city’s biggest public toilets.