Eircom are improving their service to us yet again by removing the only phonebox in town on Monday. Their excuse? Everyone has mobiles and the phonebox doesn’t make enough to cover it’s costs. Public Service? Forget it…we’ve been privatised. They’ve also removed the one in Mountnugent and two or three in Ballyjamesduff, although they’re leaving one there for now. I believe it’s actually the County Council who pay Eircom the difference between what it costs to maintain the phoneboxes and how much they get in revenue from them. It was supposed to be removed in March. I suppose it would be cynical of me to think they waited until after the local elections to do it.