'No threat' to future of post office serving Limerick suburb

AN POST has said there is “no threat” to the future of a post office to serve the Castletroy community.

It comes after planning permission was sought to develop the unit the facility is located in at Castletroy Town Centre.

Shields Dental, which occupies the neighbouring unit in the shopping centre, is seeking permission from council to merge the two units to provide a larger dental clinic.

Limerick Live understands the developers are keeping their options open for the future by submitting this planning application, which council is due to decide on by next Wednesday, January 29.

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However, whatever happens, the Castletroy Post Office will survive, but might be located elsewhere in Castletroy Town Centre, it's understood. A spokesperson for the postal firm confirmed there is “no threat” to the future of the facility when contacted by this newspaper.

Local Fine Gael councillor Peter Doyle has welcomed the news, especially in light of the loss of a post office in Lisnagry a number of years ago.

“You’d have to travel a long way to find a post office if you didn’t have one in Castletroy,” he said.

“It’s a hub for the community. I’d have sons under 25 and they’d hardly know what a stamp looks like! But for the rest of us, it's a busy post office. You'd have people collecting pensions and people posting stuff to families abroad,” he said.

Cllr Doyle believes Castletroy is the fastest growing suburb in Ireland outside Dublin.

“We are hoping to get a library at some stage, so we'd like to keep our post office,” he added.