Come Here To Me!

Queue outside a Bank of Ireland branch in Dublin, last night. By Superscouse , from boards.ie

I don’t know whether its a coincidence or not, but yesterday, the day that Eric Cantona had encouraged French people to withdraw all their cash from their accounts en- masse, Bank of Irelands systems went “tits up” and started spewing out huge amounts of cash. Bank balances were not being updated so people with nothing in their accounts were able to withdraw hundreds of euro. Queues grew at ATMs as rumours spread, people withdrawing thousands at a time and all the rest. Now don’t get me wrong, I’ve no sympathy for the banks; I’ve heard of one person who is leaving these shores for Australia in a couple of days withdrawing over a grand, good luck to them getting that back. Its going to be a joyous Christmas for some people, lets hope the banks don’t catch up with them in the New Year!

John Dillinger they aint

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