In the second of a five-part series, we visit Cappataggle, Co Galway, where the closure of the post office led one retired schoolteacher to go on hunger strike in protest

An Post insists the controversial decision to close the post office in Cappataggle, Co Galway, stands and that it will shut down tomorrow.

A national movement aimed at fighting the threat to the future of rural post offices is to be launched in the West tonight.