Having to pay for toilets in Heuston

[Greenandred]

You obviously don't get out much?!

Not much to Heuston, no. I've never been charged to use the lav in a bar or restaurant!

That's because you generally have to be a customer to use those facilities, that is to say, you're already giving them your money. In train stations, people can and do walk in off the street to use the facilities, to take shelter, etc. There is no guarantee that the price of cleaning the toilets will be covered, as there is no guarantee that those using them will be contributing monetarily towards the upkeep.

And given the frequency with which train stations become populated be weirdos and winos at night, the above argument becomes even more compelling.

I didn't consider that reason. It seems quite justified now, especially when you consider the amount of winos etc hanging around outside Heuston trying to scab change.

[Watcher]

You have to pay in St Stephens Green Shopping Centre which I think is ridiculous. I dont think the shopping centre management is short of a few bob that they cant provide such facilities free of charge to their patrons. It's not like they are open in to the early hours of the morning and therefore a haven for winos and junkies. Also, those blue lights will allay the allure for junkies to congregate for shooting up. They dont have the blue lights but if junkies were a problem, they could use it as a deterant.

[Twin Towers]

If you need to take a leak in town you dont have much choice but to use a pub, and then that walking sheepishly past the barman just to answer the call of nature "Oh yes I am a regular, regularly in here I do be"

[seabhcan]

Just hold it until you get on the train!

"When the train is in the station,
Please refrain from urination!
Have respect for railway property..."

[zakalwe]

am i correct in saying that a licenced premises is obliged to allow you to use the toilet?

i usually go for a McSh!t (with lies) "i'm just going to the toilet then i'll order!"

[alonso]

i was in Heuston a couple of times in the last month and peed for free. That was the jacks right?

[red365]

I was in Heuston last weekend and was shocked to discover that you have to pay to use the public toilets there. How do IE get away with that in this day and age?

Where did you think the term "spend a penny" came from?

[seanad voter]

If these toilets are ever out-of-order is there a public address announcement saying "Heuston, we have a problem" ?

(I'll get my coat.)

[meriwether]

i was in Heuston a couple of times in the last month and peed for free. That was the jacks right?

You didnt walk into the ticket office by accident and pee in a bin?
It, ahem, happens to the best of us.........

[Greenandred]

I was in Heuston last weekend and was shocked to discover that you have to pay to use the public toilets there. How do IE get away with that in this day and age?

Where did you think the term "spend a penny" came from?

A penny, I could live with. I could find better uses for €2.

Being a youngster, I wouldn't have heard such archaic language much anyway.