East Cork postmaster: I was the only human being she met for the week

Paddy O’Shea, who has been running a post office for the last 37 years in East Cork, believes he will be out of business in three to five years.

He was speaking in Dublin yesterday where the Irish Postmasters’ Union held a demonstration outside the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment saying that the Government was “overseeing the demise” of the national postal network.

“I’m in Aghada in East Cork. I’ve a middle-sized office and it’s in a small village and obviously, we give great service but it [business] is dropping all the time,” Mr O’Shea told the Irish Examiner.