Post offices ‘could be mini Garda stations’

Post offices could be transformed into mini Garda bureaux under proposals to save the country’s struggling network.

Workers in the country’s 1,150 post offices could carry out basic police administration in a bid to raise more revenue and prevent future closures.

This was one consideration in a report from a cross-party Oireachtas committee, which made a string of recommendations to make post offices more sustainable.