An Post is to open a new post office in Douglas in the New Year after the original unit was forced to close following a major fire.

Communications Minister Richard Bruton received correspondence pleading for the retention of An Post’s mail centre in Cork — but not on behalf of any of the others threatened with closure.

Pressure is growing on Minister Richard Bruton to intervene in a stand-off between An Post and residents of Thurles in Co Tipperary over a plan to re-locate the local post office from the centre of town to a shopping centre.

An Post is being accused of giving false hope to a rural community after it rebranded a post office with new signage... just a week before it plans to permanently close the service, against the wishes of locals.

Gardaí investigating an armed robbery at a post office in Bridgetown, Co. Wexford, have arrested two men.

Social welfare recipients will continue to collect their payments from post offices this year.

A post-office raider told a postmaster, first thing on a Monday morning, “it’s your lucky day” as he tried to force his way into the premises.

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Communications Minister Denis Naughten will appear before a meeting of the Communications, Climate Action and Environment Committee today to answer questions about a deal that will lead to the closure of 160 rural post offices.

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She can’t be absolutely sure of the exact date but Eileen Kelly, the outgoing postmistress in Allihies in West Cork, thinks that the village post office has been operating since around 1909.

Communications Minister Denis Naughten has rejected the closure of 159 post offices will be detrimental to rural Ireland, insisting post offices have to be viable.

An Post has published the locations of 160 post offices which are set to close under its consolidation plans.

An Post says that, as part of its Post Office Transformation Programme and a €50m investment in the post office network, 161 postmasters have applied for the company’s voluntary retirement package, resulting from the recent ground-breaking agreement with the Irish Postmasters’ Union (IPU).

An Post has confirmed that 161 post offices might close.

Two men have been arrested following a robbery at a Post Office in Co Sligo yesterday.

If communities want to retain local post offices, they must use the service, the Tánaiste has warned.

An Post says it has agreed with the Postmasters' Union that there will be no compulsory closure of offices.

President Donald Trump has again attacked online retailer Amazon, calling its business deal with the US Postal Service to deliver packages a money-losing agreement that hurts taxpayers.

A Post Office in Athboy, Co. Meath, has been robbed by an armed gang.

A West Cork community has been urged to play a meaningful role in securing its village post office, following the death of a postmaster last month.

A minister has intervened in a bid to save a village post office in West Cork after the widow of the postmaster was informed just days after his funeral it would be closed.

Gardaí are hunting for a lone raider who fled empty-handed after an attempted armed robbery at a post office in Cork.

A small rural community is celebrating after An Post gave its stamp of approval to keep its post office running into its 107th consecutive year.

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The Irish Postmasters’ Union is to meet Communications Minister Denis Naughten on Thursday to demand the Government invest more in the postal network.

The country could be facing a series of post office closures in the near future, postmasters warned today.

The first ever online GP Postmaster Service has launched in Kildare today.

The Minister for Communications Denis Naughten is under pressure to spell out a concrete plan to save rural post offices.

It is good news for customers, but worrying for post offices that derive an important revenue stream from passport services.

A raider passed a note to a post office teller advising no one would get hurt if money was handed over to him.

Gardaí are searching for a lone, armed raider who held up a post office in Co Cork and made off with a large sum of cash.

People sending packages and Christmas cards are being advised to get to your nearest post office as soon as possible.

A post office worker who stole from ten elderly people by skimming their old age pensions has avoided a prison sentence.

Introducing mobile post offices would spell the death of communities across the country rural TDs have warned.

Postmasters have called on the Government to protect the network by turning their stores into community hubs and one-stop-shops for state services.

Gardaí in Kerry were last night hunting a third member of a gang after a post office was robbed at gunpoint, a Garda car repeatedly rammed, and detectives discharged warning shots.

Latest: Two men in their 30s have been arrested and a third suspect remains at large after an armed raid on a Co Kerry post office.

Post offices would be paid some commission for facilitating the remote health system.

Gardaí are hoping this picture of the getaway car used in an armed raid on a post office will prompt the public to provide them with vital information which will lead to the culprit.

Two men have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery of a Wexford post office.