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Public Toilet

  • 19-11-2013 11:50pm
    #1
    faolteam
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    Can you use a toilet in a Public House without making a purchase ?


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  • #2
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    You have no right to. It's up to individual establishments to decide after that.


  • #3
    brian_t
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    It's not a Public Toilet. It's a private toilet for the patrons of the Public House.


  • #4
    hullaballoo
    Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,774 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    This is another one of those legal myths that circulates. I heard it when I was younger as well, "they have to let you use the toilet and give you a glass of water for free".

    Utter rubbish.


  • #5
    coylemj
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    They're going to cover the topic on the Joe Duffy show today, it was mentioned in the slot they get at about 12:40 every day on the Ronan Collins show to plug the agenda. Some lady was in a department store and must have been refused so she took up the invitation to 'call Joe'.


  • #6
    Wheelnut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 977 ✭✭✭Wheelnut


    coylemj wrote: »
    They're going to cover the topic on the Joe Duffy show today, ..

    Was there any conclusion reached or was it just another Joe-Show?

    For some reason I suspect that toilets in a public house can be used without a purchase because it is a "public" house. The situation would be different in restaurants and other establishments that are not public houses. But what is the definition of a public house?


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  • #7
    Cycling Dumbasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 417 ✭✭Cycling Dumbasses


    Wheelnut wrote: »
    Was there any conclusion reached or was it just another Joe-Show?

    For some reason I suspect that toilets in a public house can be used without a purchase because it is a "public" house. The situation would be different in restaurants and other establishments that are not public houses. But what is the definition of a public house?
    Would one enter a public house sit down take up a table and pour a flask of tea and start eating sandwiches and avail of the free wifi and finish off lunch by bringing out a nagging of whiskey bought from supervalue and using the rest of the boiling water to make hot whiskeys, go for a piss come back and open up the multi pack of taytos cheese and onion bought from supervalue and start playing 31.


  • #8
    Paulw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    Wheelnut wrote: »
    Was there any conclusion reached or was it just another Joe-Show?

    I think you missed the irony/sarcasm. :rolleyes:
    Wheelnut wrote: »
    For some reason I suspect that toilets in a public house can be used without a purchase because it is a "public" house. The situation would be different in restaurants and other establishments that are not public houses. But what is the definition of a public house?

    It is not public. It is a private business, which has the right to refuse admission. It is the very same with a restaurant.

    You have no right to use the toilet.


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