Letters to the Editor, December 16th: On the Ceann Comhairle, data centres and the price of coffee
The position of Ceann Comhairle is one of our great constitutional offices of State
An Post
Holyhead Port damage: Have your Christmas present parcels been delayed?
An Post says all the parcels stuck in Holyhead should be delivered by Christmas
Holyhead Port closure: Will it impact people coming home for Christmas?
An Post is confident it can handle the parcel backlog amid disruption from port closure
Gardaí investigating alleged theft of significant volume of parcels and letters in Crumlin area
A person of interest has been identified
Holyhead Port closure: Backlog clearing but no guarantee all packages will be delivered to Ireland by 25th
Use of other routes and haulage companies has seen backlog reduced from 500,000 to 150,000 parcels, says An Post
‘Our available balance was €500 lower than we thought it should be’: A ‘jarring’ story about An Post Money app
Funds from a customer’s subsidiary account rather than main account used to cover card transactions
‘Writing a Christmas card list makes you think about who you value. It’s a very mindful exercise’
Millions of letters will be handled every day by An Post during the lead-up to Christmas
Donal Ryan wins An Post Irish Novel of the Year Award for Heart, Be at Peace
Sally Rooney, Graham Norton, Johnny Sexton, Jane Casey and Paul Howard also among winners at this year’s An Post Irish Book Awards
An Post worker who claimed she was penalised over ‘whacked’ chair complaint has case rejected
Labour Court upholds €1,000 award, however, for age-related harassment after comment about ‘her vintage’ of music
The 100 Archive: ‘The Irish design diaspora is truly global, yet their work is rarely recognised as Irish’
Irish Design Week 2024: Leading designers created the 100 Archive website to chart the past, present and future of the creative work that’s all around us
An Post prepared to enter mediation over tiger kidnapping claim, court hears
Malahide postmistress, her two daughters and an Italian student have all sued the postal services company
Irish Book Awards 2024 shortlist: Sally Rooney, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, David McWilliams and more
Winners of the 19th year of the An Post book awards will be announced at a ceremony in December
RTÉ seems content to let Montrose moulder. It should jump at the chance to move back to the GPO
A proposed return by the national broadcaster to its birthplace is apt as it redefines itself, and could benefit a neglected part ot Dublin
Switching mobile networks? Here’s how to pay only for what you need and avoid roaming charges
A comparison of plans from Three, Vodafone, Eir, Virgin Mobile, Sky Mobile, 48, An Post Mobile, Tesco Mobile and GoMo
Postman who stole greeting cards to pay off gambling debt given suspended sentence
Shane Brown (35) caught with 39 stolen greeting card envelopes after ‘sting’ operation by An Post
Ireland’s best and worst customer service: Guess which list Aer Lingus and Facebook are in
The annual Customer Experience survey found the Credit Union Movement the best perfomer
Non-bank lender Grid starts SME loans partnership with An Post
Deal aimed at helping it reach its plan to almost triple its current number of business customers to 10,000 over the next three years
Tiger kidnapping: ‘What was I to do? The woman I loved was being threatened with her life’
Shopkeeper pulls down the shutters on an enjoyable 51-year career but remains haunted by 2010 kidnap-robbery incident
TV licence sales fail to recover from drop-off caused by RTÉ pay controversy, new data shows
A total of 450,000 licences were bought in the first seven months of the year, 14% down on the figures for 2022.
Future governments will be able to alter RTÉ funding deal
Minister ‘couldn’t imagine’ a future government rowing back on the commitments even though no legislation would be needed to do so
TV licence fee to stay unchanged but viewers may see impact on RTÉ services
Existing licence fee payers will be affected by this deal if RTÉ is obliged to make further programme cuts as a result
Households who fail to pay TV licence may face immediate fixed-charge notice
Viewers may need to key in a code to access publicly funded content
No plan to expand TV licence into wider household charge under new RTÉ funding model
Annual fee set to remain €160
It’s in the mail ... or is it? More reader stories of missing post between Ireland and Australia
An Post says there is no evidence of ‘systemic issues or challenges’ with mail between the two countries but urges senders to always include return address
Post office to vacate historic Ballsbridge building after 135 years
Decision to move post office described as an ‘outrage’ by a local representative
Irish man uses tracker in bid to find out why his letters rarely reach daughter in Australia
An AirTag tracker inserted with a card recorded its last location in a residential area near Heathrow airport
An Post revenues rise as ‘frothy’ ecommerce offsets fall of traditional letters
Ecommerce is currently growing at about 16% while post volumes are falling at a rate of about 9%
Asylum seeker turned postman becomes Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork
Cllr Honore Kamegni recently became first person of colour elected to Cork City Council
‘We saved for our wedding in 2007. We knuckled down for the year previous so we could have everyone we wanted there’
Wendy Stunt, chief marketing officer of Future Horizons
Top tips to avoid being scammed when you are on holiday
More than €100m was swiped from consumers in Ireland in various frauds and scams last year, according to data from the BPFI
Money dos and don’ts when travelling this summer
If travelling outside euro zone, consider getting your cash before you go or prefund a card and always watch out for the small print on things like ATM withdrawals
Jellyfish sting ‘no more harmful than a bee’: An Post stamps to highlight a healthy marine ecosystem
Carrageen moss and compass jellyfish feature on new stamps detailing Irish sea life
An Post named most reputable organisation over last 15 years as RTÉ suffers greatest decline
Credit unions top the annual RepTrak study for 2024, with only X found to have a worse reputation than RTÉ
Staff at An Post and Eir to be balloted on new pay deals
Communications Workers Union gets agreements worth 8% for the postal workers and 11% for those in the telecom operator
Passing the parcel or passing the buck, who pays for all the careless deliveries?
Pricewatch: The rise of online shopping has led to greater demands being placed on delivery companies and their drivers, resulting in more problems for customers
Post box painted gold in honour of Oscar winner Cillian Murphy who ‘delivered for Cork’
Post box in Dublin also given gold treatment by An Post to mark success of Element pictures
‘Logical’ that banks should be responsible for maintaining infrastructure for access to cash
Access to Cash Bill is designed to manage future cash demand and will require independent ATM operators to register with the Central Bank
Complaint against An Post ad upheld after letters undelivered after 20 days
An advert from taxi-booking app FreeNow was the subject of 33 complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority
Rathmines art deco building among six post offices being sold off by An Post
Councillor voices concern replacement post office would be ‘considerable distance’ away
Staying onside with Revenue while gifting a young child some money
Q&A: Bank and An Post rules about accounts for very young children cause concern
Gift cards deliver profits of over €10m for One4all
More than half of revenues come from inactive balance charges and card administration fees, figures from GVS parent TSC Ventures indicate
TV licence is ‘an outdated charge that belongs to a different time’, Taoiseach tells Dáil
More than 13,000 summonses for failure to pay TV licence issued last year, with Varadkar saying he would like a new system for funding public service broadcasting in place by 2025
No major increase in TV licence court summonses despite significant drop in numbers paying
More than 13,000 court summonses issued over non-payment of TV licence last year
Postmaster TD Michael Healy-Rae says ‘awful’ stamp price hike necessary to keep five-day service
Politician who runs Kilgarvan post office calls on people to ‘use it or you will lost it’
An Post raises standard stamp prices for fourth time in less than three years
Stamp prices up 40% since May 2021 amid ‘rising costs and falling letter volumes’, says State-owned company
An Post hikes cost of standard stamps again
The 5 cent rise is the fourth increase in less than three years
Child maintenance payments could be collected by Revenue as part of shake-up
Wide-ranging changes outlined in report from Minister for Justice come after many years of lobbying by advocates for one-parent families and children
The union boss targeting Ireland’s tech sector: ‘It’s particularly hard work when Amazon won’t respond to a phone call’
Communications union boss Seán McDonagh is targeting the tech sector after swathe of job cuts
An Post Christmas parcel deliveries surge by 30% but letters in decline
Inside Business podcast: While An Post’s parcels business is growing, letter volumes have fallen by 5.5% this year
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray is An Post Irish Book of the Year 2023
Tragicomic family saga secures top prize on top of Novel of the Year award
An Post: Bark the herald angels sing as people poised to buy presents for their pets
One in five who shop online are buying gifts for their pets
An Post chief David McRedmond to receive EY honour
State company’s chief executive to receive a special award at EY Entrepreneur of the Year ceremony on Thursday
Paul Murray wins Novel of the Year for The Bee Sting at the An Post Irish Book Awards
Other winners include Mark Moriarty for Cookbook of the Year, and Katriona O’Sullivan for Biography of the Year and Listener’s Choice Award
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