2762. 🇮🇪 Irish Republic Commemorates 19th Century Politician.

 

New issues -

🇮🇪 An Post (postal service of the Republic of Ireland) -

31 July 2025 - 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O’Connell, Irish politician - 2 self-adhesive stamps produced in sheetlets of 8. Designed by Zinc from illustrations by David Rooney and lithographed by Enschedé. Rating:- *****.

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

28 August 2025 - ‘Hello Kitty & Friends’ - 1 pack containing 3 panes and sold for A$37. Panes 1 and 3 each containing 6 different self-adhesive stamps and pane 2 contains a gummed self-adhesive miniature sheet made up of 4 identical Greetings stamps depicting flowers with attached labels and a ‘gutter strip’ of 4 of the same stamps also with attached labels.

What trash. And expensive trash at that.

Rating:- 0.

Commonwealth countries which are not yet known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025 -

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbuda 

Bahamas 

Barbados 

Belize 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon

Cayman Islands 

Cook Islands including Rarotonga 

Cook Islands Aitutaki

Cook Islands Penrhyn 

Dominica 

Gabon 

Ghana 

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Guyana 

Kingdom of eSwatini 

Kiribati 

Lesotho 

Malawi 

Mauritius 

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Nauru 

Nevis

New Zealand Ross Dependency 

Niue

Papua New Guinea 

Pitcairn 

Rwanda 

St Kitts or St Kitts Nevis 

Saint Lucia 

St Vincent and the Grenadines 

Samoa 

Solomon Islands 

South Africa 

The Gambia 

Tokelau 

Tonga

Tongs Niuafo’ou

Turks and Caicos Islands 

Tuvalu 

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia 

Therefore, at the end of July, 47 out of 87 (54%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities appear to have not issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2025. This compares with 55.2 at the end of June 2025 and 48.9% at the end of July 2024.