An Post has announced that a new postmaster has been appointed to take over the Sunday\u2019s Well post office \u2013 which had been facing an uncertain future after the resignation of the previous postmaster.<\/p>\n
Last month, An Post confirmed that the former postmaster, Finbarr O\u2019Regan, had resigned, and the tender was being advertised.<\/p>\n
An Post said at the time that the post office would remain open for a number of weeks, but could not say whether service will continue beyond the weekend.<\/p>\n
Last month, a number of locals told The Echo that they had been told the post office would remain open for \u201cone or two weeks\u201d, but unless a new postmaster was found, it would likely close permanently after that.<\/p>\n
On Monday, a spokesperson for An Post said there had been some good news for the people of the area.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are delighted to announce that we have been successful in finding a postmaster to take over the running of Sunday\u2019s Well post office.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe new postmaster will formally take over in the next two weeks or so and there will be no break in service to customers,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson added that they would make a further announcement once details had been finalised.<\/p>\n
It is the second piece of good news for Sunday\u2019s Well in recent days, in an area which has suffered a series of premises closures over recent years, with a shop, butcher, and two restaurants all closing.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, a new caf\u00e9 opened beside the Sunday\u2019s Well post office, in what was originally the post office building.<\/p>\n
One woman on Sunday\u2019s Well Rd on Monday, who declined to give her name, said she were very happy with the news.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fantastic to hear. The post office has been the heart of the area for so many years, and with the caf\u00e9 opening now too, it\u2019s great to see a bit of life in the place,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Post has announced that a new postmaster has been appointed to take over the Sunday\u2019s Well post…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-501534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}