New stamps stick science under the microscope

07 January 2015

January 7th, 2015: In celebration of Ireland’s significant contribution to Science, An Post today issued two 68c stamps featuring the Science Gallery at Dublin’s Trinity College and the annual BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.

2 min read Read article

Angel unveils An Post Christmas stamp

24 November 2014

24 November 2014: Schoolgirl Paris Curtis (7) from Dublin 8, a pupil at Marist National School in Crumlin, unveiled An Post’s new Christmas stamp on which she is photographed dressed as an Angel singing carols at the Mansion House some years ago.

2 min read Read article

Building towards 2016 Contract signed for GPO Flagship Project

21 October 2014

GPO Dublin – Tuesday, October 21, 2014: Following a public tendering process, the contract for the construction works for the GPO: Witness History Interpretive Exhibition Centre has been awarded to the Irish firm, PJ Hegarty and Sons. Construction will begin in November and is expected to take 12 months at which stage the exhibition fit-out will commence. GPO: Witness History will officially open on Easter Sunday 2016. The overall development will cost €7.8 million.

2 min read Read article

An Post gets its game face on

16 October 2014

Dublin 16/10/2014 Did you hear the one about the moustachioed superstar, the hedgehog, the yellow dot and the space invader? Well stand by, because this week An Post has issued a four-stamp set celebrating the great video game icons.

2 min read Read article

New stamp commemorates the bicentenary of the birth of Thomas Davis

09 October 2014

9th October 2014: Mr Sean Sherlock T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs today unveiled a stamp, issued by An Post, celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Thomas Davis.

3 min read Read article

Purrfect new stamps to get your claws into…

03 September 2014

September 3rd, 2014: Cats are the subject of four new stamps to be issued by An Post tomorrow (Thursday). Four popular feline breeds - Maine Coon, Burmese, British Shorthair and Persian – are featured on the new 68c stamps by Red & Grey Design with striking photographs by Feline Photography specialist Amy French.

3 min read Read article

New commemorative stamp celebrates the late Seamus Heaney

28 August 2014

Dublin, August 28th, 2014: A new commemorative 68c stamp celebrating the late Seamus Heaney, one of the world’s best-known and widely admired poets and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, was issued today (Thursday).

2 min read Read article

Stamp set celebrates Prison Service

07 August 2014

Dublin, August 7, 2014 - Decades of dedicated service to the State is celebrated in a four stamp set issued by An Post and unveiled today by the Minister for Justice and Equality Frances Fitzgerald TD.

3 min read Read article

New stamps commemorate outbreak of World War 1

23 July 2014

July 23rd, 2014: An Post will issue two commemorative stamps tomorrow, July 24, marking the forthcoming centenary of the outbreak of World War I.

1 min read Read article

Postage rates to increase on July 21

20 June 2014

New domestic rate still below EU Average. USO must be put on a sustainable footing.

2 min read Read article