The Journal has found that Dublin Bus drivers are having to urinate into bottles due to the lack of access to toilet facilities on their routes.

A source within the National Bus and Rail Union told the publication that Dublin Bus had started to "crack the whip" among drivers who requested a toilet break.

The bus drivers have stopped in local depots if needed but their supervisors have started writing up reports about the disruption to the service when this happens.

“What’s happening in some places is that drivers are urinating in bottles. We’ve had complaints from people in housing estates saying they don’t want their kids looking out the window and seeing the driver urinating at the bus,” the source told the online publication.

Sadly, this is not new information and reports of this kind have happened previously in Dublin.

In 2008, A bus driver who was carrying out his bus route on the north side needed the toilet so bad that he had to pull over for 10 minutes at a pub.