Paying bonuses to banking staff ‘a kick in the teeth’
A Sinn Fein TD says if the government decide to pay bonuses to banking staff, it will be a kick in the teeth to the many people struggling to come through the cost of living crisis. Cabinet is expected to approve plans to bring back bonuses for banking staff…
Banking Woe for Local Councillor
It’s a number of weeks since the doors closed for the last time on 88 branches of the Bank of Ireland. A number closed in this region including Ballymote, Tubbercurry , Bundoran, Glenties, Manorhamilton and Drumshanbo This already is causing problems for customers and one of those is Sligo…
Banking campaigner says there’s ‘huge negativity’ toward competition
A Sligo member of a group campaigning for banking reform in this country says he’s found there’s huge negativity toward creating competition in the market here. Seamus Maye is a member of the Public Banking Forum of Ireland, which has submitted comprehensive reform proposals to the Department of Finance. Mr…
People paying ‘way over the odds’ for mortgages in Ireland
A Sligo campaigner for reform in the banking system says people here are paying over the odds because of lack of competition. Seamus Maye, of the Public Banking Forum of Ireland, was reacting to claims by the biggest mortgage lender in Germany that there is political resistance to it entering…