Farmers, homeowners and business owners are being urged to sign up to a new system aimed at tackling rural crime.

A national map of outdoor mobile phone coverage for 2G, 3G and 4G services for a range of providers has been published by ComReg, the Commission for Communications Regulation, which regulates the electronic communications and postal sectors.

Thousands of young people will gather in Dublin this weekend to exhibit a range of projects aimed at improving their local communities.

Property prices are continuing to rise in Ireland but, according to the CSO's Residential Property Price Index, inflation is slowing.

Eircode has teamed up with the not-for-profit company, Property Marking Ireland, and with local communities, to roll out nationwide property marking to combat theft, and to assist in identification and return of stolen property.

It might be easy to joke about the low use, below 5%, of the €38m Eircode but, as is often the case, the joke is really on us.

An Post has told an Oireachtas committee that Eircode usage remains “very low”, with less than 5% of all mail it handles using the €38m postcode — more than two years after it launched.

An Post has confirmed that its staff does not use Eircode when delivering letters and parcels door-to-door, writes Joe Leogue of the Irish Examiner.

Fewer than one in 10 logistics and shipping companies have adapted their businesses to use Eircode, according to a survey by KPMG.

The advertising watchdog has said it does not have the power to ban Government-produced ads promoting the benefits of Eircode despite finding that the broadcasts were misleading, writes Joe Leogue of the Irish Examiner.

The minister responsible for Eircode has issued a staunch defence of the system, despite the fact he does not use it on his own website.

RTÉ has provisionally recommended selling up to 10 acres of the Montrose campus over the next year, ahead of a report on the management of its assets going to the Minister for Communications.

Some of the changes to the Susi grants system this year include greater use of technology to calculate how far they travel to college and the resultant level of payment they are due.

A survey has found that 96% of logistics and shipping companies have not adapted their processes to use the €38m Eircode system, nearly a year since its introduction.

A company that formed part of the consortium that introduced Eircode has denied that a new delivery code it has offered the courier industry is an alternative to the controversial postcode system.

I hope Eircode doesn’t mean the placenames fall out of use, writes Colm O’Regan

A Limerick-based Fine Gael TD has described the hiring of former civil servants as consultants on the Eircode project as “a scandal”, and said he was disgusted they were hired without the jobs being advertised.

Communications Minister Alex White has defended Eircode, estimated to cost between €38m and €50m, after An Post said fewer than one in 10 letters and parcels use the new postcode.

The Department of Communications has been accused of making “misleading and untrue” assertions in relation to Eircode by a body representing the freight industry.

Millions of euro in public money have been lost by government departments and state agencies through sloppy practices and ill-conceived projects, the national spending watchdog has found.

The State’s spending watchdog questions whether Ireland’s €38m postcode system will be value for money, and raises concerns with a number of aspects of its introduction.

A parcel posted from Britain with Ireland clearly marked as its destination ended up in Canada — leaving the intended recipient to question whether the Eircode he gave in his address may have played a role in the mix-up.

If a proxy for the public sector’s engagement, efficacy and the adaptability was to be measured by their promptness in using Eircode smart postal codes in the ‘contact us’ section of their websites, the impression conveyed would be that citizen relations and customer-focused culture are low priority.

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I was thrilled to get my new and long-awaited Eircode in the post this morning. No more problems sending coordinates to my far flung friends and relatives to feed into their sat-navs.

Irish Postmasters’ Union general secretary Ned O’Hara explains why the IPU is entering candidates in the next general election

Over the last year, and it has seemed like that long, we’ve read several articles on the proposed new postal codes. 

Eircode has been branded a “disgrace” after a postcode was issued in the name of a man’s recently deceased father.

Eircode has cost the country €27m, and the problems that have come to light in the three days since its launch confirm detractors’ long-held fears, writes Joe Leogue

For years, I have waited for postcodes, so that Ireland PLC could finally take its place among the coded nations of the Earth. No more, I thought, will I have to worry about purchasing from Amazon.com and adding a fictitious post code.

The company behind Eircode expects the postcode to be widely used within two years, despite the teething problems that plagued the system on launch day and sustained criticism from courier companies.

Yesterday’s Eircode launch saw a protest by a group that claims 50,000 Irish language addresses are either incomplete or have been entirely omitted from the new postcode database.

Alexis Tsipras is facing a battle to cling on to his government’s majority; Eircode expects the postcode to be widely used within two years; A teenage girl who survived a plane crash emerged from the wilderness after hiking “for a couple of days”; Barry Davis Ryan was laid to rest yesterday. Here’s this morning’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

The trade body representing freight transport and courier companies has filed a formal complaint to the European Commission, claiming that the State’s new postcode amounts to unfair state aid for An Post.