Post office to close tomorrow despite hunger strike to retain it

An Post insists the controversial decision to close the post office in Cappataggle, Co Galway, stands and that it will shut down tomorrow.

Community activist Michael Kilgannon, 74, was enduring the third day of his hunger strike yesterday in nearby Ballinasloe in protest at the decision.

The retired schoolteacher vowed the hunger strike would continue, and that others would be ready to take his place and continue the strike by the end of this week, if there was no change in the An Post decision.