Public convenience offers a way to be seen at a funeral but avoid having to attend the entire event.
For some local businessmen, attending funerals is a time consuming inconvenience. They will go to great effort to make their presence felt and get back to work as soon as possible. The trick is to arrive late to the church but in time to show your face before the funeral procession departs.
The public toilets on William Street in Limerick provide an ideal hiding place to wait until the funeral cortège has passed.
A hot step and jump land one safely inside the toilet until the entire funeral has passed.
This public convenience is now under threat of being demolished and funeral dodgers, eager to get back to work, are not happy that their hideaway will be removed.
This episode of 'Newsbeat' was broadcast on 21 February 1969.
'Newsbeat' was a half-hour feature programme presented by Frank Hall and ran for seven years from September 1964 to June 1971. 'Newsbeat' went out from Monday to Friday on RTÉ television and reported on current affairs and issues of local interest from around Ireland. The final programme was broadcast on 11 June 1971.
