An Post workers heckled at closure

An Post officials were heckled last night as they closed for the last time a post office which has served a Cork community for a century.

Campaigners fighting to prevent the transfer of Blackpool post office from the village to a nearby shopping centre shouted and chanted at the officials as they moved in to oversee the closure of the village branch ahead of Monday’s relocation.

About 50 people, many of them elderly, stood in front of the post office and chanted “shame on you”, “we don’t trust An Post”, and “out, out, out”, and blocked An Post officials from entering.