An Post comes under pressure to keep post office in city village

An Post will face pressure today to reverse a decision to relocate the post office from one of Cork’s best-known city villages.

Several local TDs hope to meet Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte andsenior An Post officials in Dublin to press the case for the retention of the post office in Blackpool village.

Separately, Cork City Council agreed last night to seek a meeting with the new postmaster, Tom Scally, in a bid to persuade him to continue to run the post office in the village.