How Catholic Ireland's legacy still shapes our public toilet problem
Marc deFaoite says Ireland's shortage of public toilets reflects a lingering legacy of Catholic-era attitudes and decades of neglect
The ‘Morning Ireland’ report included an interview with a woman who explained that the situation in Ireland is so dire that people have to wear adult diapers as insurance. File picture: Denis Linihane
Back in the good old, bad old, school days in the ‘70s and ‘80s, we used to have to ask the teacher permission to go to the toilet — and it had to be in Irish.
“An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas?” is a sentence that was drilled into us early and often. Perhaps it’s still like that in schools. I don’t know — I left Ireland in the ‘80s and have never lived there since.
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