‘We’re not going back into our box’

SEAN MARTIN has been a postmaster in Tramore in Waterford for the past 10 years. He loves his job. While his post office is not as busy now as it during the peak summer months, the seaside resort is still a hive of activity at this time of year.

He enjoys the chat and the banter with locals and visitors and fails to understand An Post’s attitude and its unwillingness to resolve the dispute.

“They have spent a lot of money fighting us on this one,” he said. “They want the Irish Postmasters Union to go back into its box. We’re not going to do that.