Government's postcard to those forgotten runs risk of being returned to sender

The real battleground for the next election is rural Ireland, and that’s power, writes Gerard Howlin.

THE Enda regime was as culchie as it comes, but, when it came to the crunch, it decisively got lost in the Ireland outside the M50.

Yesterday’s announcement from independent minister Denis Naughten of plans to invest €30m of public money into An Post before the end of the year has to be seen partly in that light.