Reforms to postal service will deliver change and anger

The rural post office remains integral to society despite its unviability, writes Michael Clifford.

The protest took place at noon on Saturday, January 21, last as the procession of tourist coaches passed by. This was in the village of Laragh, just up the road from Glendalough in Co, Wicklow. The village had just lost its post office.

On the face of it, this might look like just another village succumbing to the march of time, the withdrawal of services to urban centres.