Up to 200 post offices at risk of closure in Republic A report commissioned by Grant Thornton warned of “unrestrained post office closures” after June 2021 Cate McCurry, PA 16 March, 2021 14:18
Up to 200 post offices are at risk of closing in the next 12 months unless the Dublin government puts financial support in place, an Oireachtas committee has heard.
The Irish Postmasters Union (IPU) laid bare the impact if the government does not continue with the transformation payments.
The group told the Oireachtas Transport Committee that up to 25% of the entire postmaster network could be gone in the next year.
Irish Postmasters’ Union general secretary Ned O’Hara said that, as more postmasters retire, the service will become “non-existent”.
The leader of the Seanad Regina Doherty has accused Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Media Minister Catherine Martin of excusing attitudes towards victims of sexual violence by refusing to remove former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger from a commission examining the future of Irish media.
The Coalition is coming under mounting pressure over its decision to back Mr Rusbridger amid controversy over his knowledge of media commentator Roy Greenslade s support for the IRA. Mr Rusbridger was editor of The Guardian when Mr Greenslade wrote an article in 2014 questioning the credibility of a BBC Spotlight programme about IRA abuse victim Máiría Cahill s case.
Three Government senators, including Seanad leader Regina Doherty, have called on former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to resign or be removed from the commission examining the future of the Irish media.
Mr Rusbridger has been at the centre of controversy over his knowledge of media commentator Roy Greenslade’s sympathies for the IRA.
IRA abuse victim Mairia Cahill has called for Mr Rusbridger’s removal from the commission because he was editor of The Guardian when Mr Greenslade wrote an article in 2014 questioning the credibility of a BBC Spotlight programme about Ms Cahill’s abuse case.
The Government backed the former newspaper editor’s continued membership of the Future of Media Commission this week despite the controversy and Ms Cahill’s request.
THREE Government senators, including the Seanad leader Regina Doherty, have called on former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to resign or be removed from the commission examining the future of the Irish media.