Spending a penny in Armagh
Sinn Fein councillor Mary Doyle is asking Armagh council officials about why they have spent Β£5000 each year for the past decade providing toilets for loyal parades. She is concerned that other groups were not aware of the possibility of such funding for their events and when she asked council officials for details of the toilet policy she claims to have been told "it had not been possible to locate".
Ms Doyle wants Armagh's toilet policy in the future to be "open and transparent". Let's hope their cubicles aren't.
("Transparency" in this regard reminds me a bit of a bar I used to frequent in New York which had see-through loo doors, apparently in the full view of the assembled clientele. First time visitors would approach the toilets, clock the transparent doors, then pause whilst they made a decision on the urgency of their call of nature. If they were lucky, however, they could get reassurance by observing another visitor spend a penny, as the loo doors would magically turn opaque once the cubicle was occupied, thus preserving everyone's dignity.)
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