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24-08-2001 6:33pm#1Taken from this week's Kerryman :
Brush up on your language skills if you are visiting Listowel this weekend for the Fleadh Cheoil and you need to use public toilets, because unless you are fluent in a continental language, you won't be able to follow the instructions to get inside!
After listening for years to complaints about the state of public toilets at Market Street, Listowel UDC finally installed all-new 'superloo' earlier this summer - a type of super-hygienic public convenience often seen in countries such as France but never before in this part of the country.
The new loo, which cost several thousands of pounds, allows the user a maximum of twenty minutes inside before the door automatically opens. Each visit costs 20 pence, dispensing forever with the old expression 'to spend a penny'.
But the problem, according to a number of local people who contacted The Kerryman, is that there are no instructions in English on how to get inside the toilet.
"The instructions are printed in French, in German, in Irish and even in Braille but there are no English instructions," said one frustrated punter. "There are little diagrams showing where to put the money in, but unless you understand a foreign language you won't have a clue." The good news for perspective piddlers, however, is the Listowel UDC is aware of the problem and is setting about rectifying it.
"The suppliers were supposed to provide us with an English version of the instructions, but they haven't done that yet," a UDC spokesman told The Kerryman. "It's a new structure and if we are satisfied with it, it will remain there permanently. Listowel is the first town in Kerry to have this new type of public toilet. "There is just the one toilet for males and females and it is very hygienic." "It washes and disinfects itself." He added that the council had received no complaints from the public so far about the lack of English instructions.
The joys of living in Ciarrai.
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