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30 Aug 2018
West Clare in fight for life
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ELAINE TUBRIDY
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HE people of West Clare are fighting to maintain their diminishing services in the wake of an An Post announcement that six post offices in Clare are to be shut. A public meeting took place on Monday in Cree which was called in an attempt to save the village’s post office, which is due to close over the next few months. The crowd, which numbered almost 400 and spilled out into the street, voiced their frustration with public representation who they believe aren’t doing enough to maintain services in rural Clare, something which has been magnified by this latest loss of basic services. The meeting was attended by
Clare’s four TDs, as well as representatives from the West Clare Municipal District, general election candidates, Independent Postmasters Group Head Tom O’Callaghan, Public Banking Forum’s Gerry Duddy and Save Our Post Office Representative Gerry Loftus. The meeting heard from members of the public who were concerned about the effect the closure of the post office would have on the village. Local shopkeeper Declan Meaney said: “If you take our Post Office, we will end up like … a ghost town”.
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