Disabled campaigners have criticised a Dublin pub last night over a bogus disabled toilet which has deceived wheelchair users.
The Mezz bar in Temple Bar features a red door with a gold wheelchair sign, indicating disabled facilities. But the locked door is simply built into the wall and there is no toilet behind it.
The Forum for People with Disabilities (FPD) said it was the most ridiculous case it had ever encountered.
"To have a door in a wall, pretending it's accessible to disabled people, is completely ludicrous.
"I don't know who they're trying to fool," said director Ms Mary Keogh.
The space behind the wall is occupied by a table and seats in the popular nightspot, which is part of the River House Hotel.
Customers who have tried to open the disabled toilet door find it locked and have been told by staff it is closed for "renovations".
Under the building regulations, any bar which is built after 1991 or which has carried out renovation work must provide toilets for disabled people.
Mr Peter Wickham, manager of the bar, said he was not aware of the bogus toilet. "It's been a year-and-a-half since I worked here - I'm just back since Monday.
"Whatever structural changes have been made, I'm not aware of them," he said.
He said that when he was in the bar, it did have a working toilet for disabled people.
He added that it was "absolutely" clear that a pub should not pretend to have such a toilet.
Mr Wickham said he would be raising the issue with the bar's owners.
He pointed out that the hotel's downstairs nightclub, the Hub, had been renovated at great expense and did include full toilet facilities for disabled people.