FF candidates face election fight over post office lobby

THREE Fianna Fáil candidates in the so-called “constituency of death” will find themselves under even more pressure as a post office lobby group plans to urge people to vote against them.

The pressure group is trying to stop the threatened closure of non-automated post offices in Lombardstown, Cullen, Derrinagree and Knocknagree — all of which happen to be in the Cork North-West constituency where FF deputies Batt O’Keeffe, Donal and Michael Moynihan are battling it out in the three-seater against two heavy-hitting FG candidates and one from Labour.

John Paul O’Shea, who is spokesman for the Lombardstown Post Office Action Committee, said that his group, which has support from other communities, is to hold a series of meetings to publicise the threatened closures and call on voters to make a statement by voting against FF candidates.