Minister intervenes in effort to save West Cork post office

A minister has intervened in a bid to save a village post office in West Cork after the widow of the postmaster was informed just days after his funeral it would be closed.

A public meeting will be held locally in Ballineen on Monday night amid fears the community, which has had a post office for 160 years, is about to lose the service.

Shortly after the postmaster Florrie O’Driscoll passed away on January 20, a notice was placed by An Post in the post office in Ballineen and in post offices in the surrounding areas to the effect that the company was “considering the future post office service provision at Ballineen, which could include the permanent closure of the office”.