Following complaints to the Joe Finnegan Show about the lack of public toilets and the poor state of the few facilities there are in the Northern Sound region, the caretaker of the Cavan Town public loos felt compelled to respond. George Harrison cleans the one remaining public toilet block in Cavan Town two to three times a day before locking them at 7 in the evening. He is employed by a private cleaning company to look after the toilets and works every day of the year except Christmas and New Year's Days.
Mr Harrison said the toilets are being used by drug-users who leave their needles behind and and anti-social drinkers. Describing some of the grim states he has found the toilets in, George Harrison, said people are even known to close the lid of the toilet before use and then, smear faeces on the walls of the cubicle. He has considered walking away from the job more than once. Mr Harrison also thinks it would be helpful if Gardaí on patrol would make their presence known around the last public toilet in Cavan Town.
"You get, as I say, drug dealers in there," George Harrison told Northern Sound, "You've got your needles and everything lying around the place. I've found everything you could name in those toilets. Whatever you name I'd safely say the whole lot has been consumed in the toilets and, again, when they're cleaned, they're clean but I could go down half an hour later and they'd be messed up again."
