Hallelujah – we finally have movement.
The public toilets in Portlaoise, which were shut back in 2017, are finally set to reopen.
Taking to Facebook, Fianna Fail Cllr for Portlaoise, Catherine Fitzgerald, announced that works to do up the facilities that have lay idle for almost three years will commence next week.
Cllr Catherine Fitzgerald said: “Works to refurbish the Portlaoise public toilets in Lyster Square will begin early next week.
“It is expected that it will take 14 weeks to complete the project.”
Back in August 2017, ‘exposed electrical wires and evidence of drug use’ were the reasons behind the closure of the public toilets at Lyster Square.
Then in February 2018, it was announced that ‘expressions of interest were being sought for the design, build and operation of new public toilets at the existing toilet block’.
But with no movement by September 2018 and still by February of 2019 – it was beginning to look like the toilets would remain closed indefinitely.
But that is now not the case and this news will surely be welcomed by many in Portlaoise who have had to relieve themselves elsewhere for almost three years.
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