Community group vows to fight post office closures

A local community group has signalled its intention to fight to retain their post offices, even as the communications minister defended the slew of impending closures announced this week.

At a public meeting in Athleague, Co Roscommon, on Wednesday night Minister Denis Naughten was told that the likely closure of 160 post offices around the country — most by the end of the year — was tantamount to treason to the rural Irish economy.