IFA fears An Post and Eircom job losses with hit quality of rural life

The IFA has serious concerns that the quality of life in rural Ireland will be detrimentally impacted following the massive jobs culls at An Post and Eircom.

IFA deputy president and &countryside chairman Eddie Downey is seeking an urgent meeting with Eircom chief executive Herb Hribar to ensure that services to rural Ireland will not be affected by the company’s decision to seek 2,000 redundancies.

“The telephone network in rural Ireland is already in need of significant repair, with broken telephone poles and fallen lines remaining unrepaired for long periods of time. This recent jobs cut announcement by Eircom has the potential to make this problem worse, particularly since Eircom’s current strategy for upgrading the network is concentrated on urban Ireland and the main centres of population throughout the country.”