Toilets in Cork City's library to be made available as English Market plan needs 'public consultation'

Council officials say significant public consultation will be required before medium-term goals, such as developing toilets near the entrance of the English Market, can progress

Plans to convert the former Hilser Jewellers building on the Grand Parade, Cork into public toilets sparked fury among traders in The English Market. Picture Dan Linehan

Toilets in Cork’s central library are to be made available to the wider public on a pay-per-use basis within weeks.

It’s proposed to open the Grand Parade building's toilets to the general public from 10am to 8pm, seven days a week, at 50c a go, with plans in the pipeline to make toilets in the civic buildings on Anglesea St available to the public during its opening hours too.