Coolgreany will fight to keep the post office open
MORE than 100 concerned members of Coolgreany community packed into the school hall to vent their anger at the closure of Coolgreany Post Office, which is one of 11 post offices being closed across county Wexford.
Closing the much-popular premises would mean regular post office users would have to commute to conduct their business through other offices in Ballyfad, Kilanerin, Gorey, Arklow or Avoca.
Postmistress Norah Finn, along with local councillors Malcolm Byrne, who chaired the meeting, Fionntan Ó Súilleabhain and Joe Sullivan, were among those who spoke of their desire to fight to maintain the postal service in what is described as a village that is being left to die. One community member said ‘the heart will be gone out of the community if the closure goes ahead’.
The public meeting comes after last week’s announcement that Coolgreany, and Camolin, will no longer have a post office in the next four months as part of a reorganisation plan involving the closure of 159 village postal services around the country. The post offices are set to close under the terms of a voluntary redundancy packages offered by An Post to postmasters and postmistresses.
Norah, who has been postmistress in Coolgreany for 13 years from a rented premises in Jim Short’s grocery shop,