IPU: An Post can fill role of banks

THE Government should give the country’s 1,100 post offices a key role in the shakeup of the banks, the country’s postmasters have said.

The Irish Postmasters’ Union (IPU) general secretary, Brian McGann, said post offices are already extensively engaged in providing banking transactions for AIB and NIB.

In the current overhaul of the banks “there is a role for An Post in that scenario given its extensive retail network”.