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Thu 03 Mar 2007Postal network decimated - LabourSome 500 post offices throughout the State have been closed in the two terms of office of the Fianna Fáil/PD government, the Labour Party has claimed.But Labour communications spokesman Tommy Broughan said figures released to him by Minister for Communications Noel Dempsey were incomplete. He claimed post offices previously listed as closed in parliamentary questions, including Whitehall in Dublin 9, are missing from the list.