Time has come to upgrade the Main Street public toilets in Cashel

First impressions of a town matter for visitors and a visitor in need gets a better impression of a place when the needs are met without fuss.

Calls were made at the recent meeting of the Tipperary/Cahir/Cashel Municipal District that the Municipal District submit a Town and Village Renewal (or similar appropriate funding stream) project to renovate and upgrade the Main Street Public Toilets in Cashel.

For a busy tourist town work needs to be prioritised to upgrade the existing facility, to include the installation of water bottle refilling stations and improvement to the baby changing unit, along with other associated works.

The issue was raised by Councillor Declan Burgess who said that improvements were needed in the town to ensure standards were kept high across the town which boasts a huge number of international visitors.

“The issue here for me is that it is outdated,” he said, speaking about what is there at present in the town.

“I would like to see this progress,” he said, as it is very important to ensure that visitors and locals have a high standard of living while present in the town.

He said in other places across Ireland, “particularly in tourist areas”, that higher standards were being met all the time. Cllr Burgess stressed the importance of Cashel keeping up standards to the highest levels possible in the town.

He said it was in the Climate Action strategy and that these improvements would benefit the town greatly going forward by ensuring locals and visitors are provided for when the need is great.

Often tourists or locals can use other toilets such as those in restaurants, bars or the local library to cater for shortcomings but outside of office hours the availability of this necessity is reduced.

The water connection wouldn’t be an issue at the centre of the town as there would be adequate resources. The motion at the meeting was seconded by Councillor Mary Hanna Hourigan who also felt that it was very important to ensure that the town could deal with a high volume of visitors as well as catering for the sizable local population.