Residents plan march in fight to retain post office

The people of one of Cork’s most historic communities are taking to the streets as part of a fight to retain their post office.

Residents in Blackpool agreed yesterday to march on An Post’s central post office in Cork tomorrow in a bid to force the company to do a U-turn on its plans to move the post office from the village to a nearby shopping centre.

They also agreed to protest at the southside business of the newly appointed postmaster, Tom Scally, on Thursday and to march on Blackpool shopping centre on Friday.