The union representing the country’s postmasters has called on An Post to support new services and innovations across its network in a bid to save post offices across the country.

Up to 150 postmasters have staged a protest outside Enda Kenny's constituency office in Castlebar, Co Mayo.

A scheme to relocate flood-hit homeowners may be widened after disagreement at Cabinet over who is eligible to apply for the special fund.

With half of us heading for a cancer diagnosis, we need to support Daffodil Day, writes Arlene Harris.

Protestors see the future of the post office inextricably linked to a way of life in rural Ireland, rather than a means to make money, writes Michael Clifford.

Postmasters have said they are upset and worried over reports that the scale of post office closures being planned may be far greater than previously thought.

Postmasters have urged the Government and An Post to sit down with them for two days to hammer out a future for the postal network and put an end to the uncertainty hanging over it.

The Government is set to come under intense political pressure from postmasters disgruntled at lack of progress in implementing a plan to revitalise and modernise their businesses.

Ciarán McMahon, chairman and managing director of Ford Ireland, has been named Business Person of the Month by Newstalk’s Down to Business.

A working group to transform post offices into “social hubs” offering numerous community, financial, and retail services has been established.

A ‘breastfeeding welcome here’ sign has been launched to help normalise breast-feeding in public.

A recipe book, endorsed by cancer doctors and dieticians, offers a healthy and more palatable-looking alternative to the “blitzed in a blender” mush patients often have to contend with when illness makes eating difficult.

We have to recognise the value of post offices to the country’s social and economic infrastructure, according to IPU general secretary Ned O’Hara

Credit unions and post offices would have the power to provide loans, mortgages, and debit cards under community banking plans put forward by the Social Democrats.

The Irish Postmasters’ Union has decided not to run its planned candidates in the upcoming general election.

Small rural post offices could receive up to €20,000 a year in government subsidies to stay alive.

Where a post office closes its door, the survival of of other small businesses is tested, writes Seona O’Fegan

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

Irish coffee company Insomnia is set to move into the UK market in a partnership with UK and Irish retail giant Debenhams.

A second postmaster has put himself up as an election candidate in the deepening row with the Government over feared post office closures.

Post offices need to diversify and modernise their services if they want to survive, according to a report which found that a disproportionate amount of business is conducted in relatively few.

The Post Office Network should be maintained to keep cash services like banking in rural communities, it was claimed today.

The process to identify new opportunities for the post office network begins today.

A new group has been set up to try and secure the future of the post office network.

Dublin-based crowdfunding facilitator Linked Finance has hit the €5m milestone in peer-to-peer lending pledges to SMEs.

The Government has unveiled a series of one-stop-shop events for existing and potential entrepreneurs called ‘Taking Care of Business’.

IT ALL began after Kate Carmody’s mother presented her with a cheese press and an instruction book when she got married in 1984.

Food producers in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, are to launch a chef training programme on foot of winning the inaugural Kilkenny Leader Partnership ‘Town of Food’ competition.

A MOUTH-WATERING Easter egg with up to €775,000 in grant aid and supports is currently whetting the appetite of five rural communities.

In a city awash with pilgrims, and more places of prayer than you could shake a stick at, it was hardly surprising to find so many Irish in Rome this weekend.

The Dublin headquarters of Anglo Irish Bank may swap loans for lattes under a plan to turn the epicentre of Ireland’s financial crisis into a café.

Niall O’Farrell this week saw the business he founded in the mid-1980s, the formal suit hire firm Blacktie, fall into liquidation. The Dragons’ Den star will be hoping his investments on the show pay off soon, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Kilkenny Leader Programme is seeking to identify its leading ‘Town of Food’ in a drive to promote the county’s culinary strength.

Irish SMEs have voted Feargal Quinn as the most admired entrepreneur, according to a survey which also found the sector was struggling with a lack of demand and direction.

IT’S 9.30am and the morning sun is filtering through the window of Insomnia Cafe, Blackrock, Co Dublin.

RTÉ Dragon Bobby Kerr said yesterday he is very happy with how his Insomnia coffee chain business performed last year as pre-tax profits increased by 45% to €99,403.