17 thoughts on “Bridge Of Sighs”

  2. Redundant Proofreaders Society

    Is the DCC responding to the long-standing need for city centre public facilities by saying ‘there yiz go’?

  7. They Call Her Natasha When She Looks Like Else

    Surely, you are mistaken. These are clearly the “luxury” gated homes in CityWest mentioned earlier.

    Watch out for this week’s Irish Times property supplement on Thursday.

  8. E'Matty

    In classic DCC fashion, the Muppets provide toilets AFTER city centre businesses have reopened theirs. We needed city centre toilets when they were closed you clowns. Cue the “ah, sure there’s no pleasing some people” victimhood DCC will almost certainly come put with.

    1. The Dude

      + 1

      Surely this is art; an installation work?

      Or is there a worse run capital city in the EU?

    2. Redundant Proofreaders Society

      Yes, but there’s more to it.

      Dublin city centre has had few public toilets since they were all closed in the 1980s due to drug-use and general anti-social behaviour around and within them. They didn’t get cleaned regularly either, so they were pretty awful and smelly, despite being excellently constructed. For decades, anyone needing a facility would use pubs, cafés and restaurants – the more honourable amongst us buying something first. McDonalds, et al, got a bit shirty about this in the 1990s and stopped people heading straight for the loos without purchasing food and using their dining area.

      So, while getting away with the closure of public latrines, the DCC were on the spot because their failure, once shielded by commercial businesses, was now exposed. Their response? Construct these temporary sheds across one of the most beautiful bridges in the city which has ‘be careful what you wish for’ written all over it, or as some cynics might add, ‘you dare to decline my white water-rafting idea?’

      There were so many alternatives to this. But a child scorned…

  11. f_lawless

    I remember that summer in Dublin, at the Liffey as it stank like hell,
    And the young people queuing on Grattan Bridge, and everyone looking so well

  12. Paulus

    The new Grattan Bridge portaloos
    In a sentinel line stand accused
    of too little, too late,
    just imagine the state
    they’ll be in when they all get abused.

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