Major social welfare warning as hundreds set to be impacted by closure of An Post office in tiny Irish village
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This means that from July 11 onwards, the social welfare recipients will be unable to collect their payments at the post office.
Those receiving payments must receive them from
A customer notice issued by the post office reads: "Leenane Post Office will permanently close on Friday 11th July 2025 at 15:00.
"All DSP payments will be available at Letterfrack Post Office, The Country Store, Letterfrack from Monday 14th July 2025.
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"All other Post Office services are available at Letterfrack Post Office or from a Post Office of your choice.
"An Post would like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers for their continued support."
However,
Bus Eireann offers bus services between Letterfrack and Leenane, but only comes every two hours, meaning recipients would have to wait for nearly two hours until their next bus home.
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The permanent closure is due to the Postmaster in Leenane is leaving the business and it has been unable to find another contractor, Galway Bay FM reports.
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It was revealed that An Post hopes to provide a Postpoint terminal at the local shop in the area, which will provide some level of service around
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Meanwhile, Dara Calleary has confirmed his department is "working on" a targeted
However, he warned that an "unintended consequence" of a
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When asked by Independent TD
He added: "That is why the programme for Government includes a range of measures to support children and their families.
"One such commitment is to explore a targeted child benefit payment and examine the interaction this would have with existing targeted supports to reduce child poverty.
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"Existing supports include the
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Social welfare recipients have been warned over the closure of the post office
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