‘An attack on our community’ – Public toilets at St Anne’s Park set on fire just days after being installed

‘An attack on our community’ – Public toilets at St Anne’s Park set on fire just days after being installed

Residents of Clontarf on Dublin’s northside have said they are “shocked and disappointed” after public toilets in St Anne’s Park were damaged over the weekend.

The facilities had only been installed recently and local people in Clontarf had campaigned for years for public toilets to be installed at the park.

As well as serving as a public park, St Anne’s is also home to playing pitches for a number of sports clubs based in Clontarf and Raheny.

Local football club Clontarf FC said members were “devastated” on Sunday morning when they arrived to the damage done to the facilities.

"This mindless vandalism beggars belief and anyone who knows anything about the idiots who did this pl