With the retirement in the coming days of a long-serving postmistress, the only remaining post office in Gaeltacht na nDéise in Co Waterford is set to be lost.
Since the closure of the post office in An Sean Phobal a few years ago, the only remaining post office in Gaeltacht na nDéise in Co Waterford has been that of An Rinn.
"An Post will come on Tuesday, close at three o'clock and they'll remove everything from here," Ms Breathnach said. "But, commercially, maybe it's not viable, I don't know. But personally, I'm sad about leaving, it's been my life for so long. It's not easy.""It's a big change for those. Particularly social welfare and pensioners, having to go into the baile mór to collect pensions, having been here for so long," she said.
He said:"Basically, what they're offering me is €21,000 a year to actually do this. On top of that we must pay about €45,000 for the An Post fit-out, if you'd like to call it that. "What we see happening here is that if the services are going to go it's going to delete the Gaeltacht completely because now people must go into Dungarvan," he said.
They advertised the contract a number of times and canvassed the local area, with a view to keeping the post office open,"but to no avail".
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