rural Ireland

Waterford Post Office closures a ‘missed opportunity,’ says Workers’ Party

The Workers’ Party have said that the planned closure of three post offices in Waterford city and county are a missed opportunity for badly-needed public investment in community services in the county. The statement comes following yesterday’s announcement that post offices in Ballinamult, Kilmeaden and Lemybrien, along with 156 other post offices nationwide, will close. [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:05+00:00August 29th, 2018|

An Post “upgrade” will further erode services in smaller towns and villages

The Workers’ Party has criticised an announcement by An Post of a plan to close around 100 post offices across the country while concentrating modernised servces in cities and larger urban areas as another blow to small town and rural Ireland. Meath Workers’ Party representative Seamus McDonagh accused An Post of packaging a major run-down [...]

2018-04-20T17:07:48+00:00April 20th, 2018|

McDonagh accuses journalist Paul Williams of scaremongering

Workers Party candidate Seamus Mc Donagh  ( Meath East) has condemned journalist Paul Williams scaremongering at meetings on rural crime that are being held around the country. WP Meath representative, Seamus McDonagh, said: “I was both amazed and disgusted by the tenor of journalist Paul Williams’ contribution to a meeting on rural crime in the [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:56+00:00November 28th, 2015|