Bank of Ireland Chaos

The people who were stupid enough to queue up last night are not the type of people who worry about their credit rating.

Just on the whole thing of Welfare recipients now being out of pocket for weeks while their negative balance is cleared - unless things have changed, don't you still need to sign on/collect weekly from post offices?

I know that changed temporarily during Covid but is bank transfer now the norm? If not then anyone who did this last night will also just ignore any threatening letters they get from a bank they probably barely use anyway.

Thankfully that level of stupidity will be laughed out of court, then they'll still have to pay it back.

And so be it- they will have a debt over them until they pay it off - the degree that impacts them Is likely to influence their level of engagement in the short term. HOWEVER, in the medium term, if they do not engage it may well be referred to the Gardai as a criminal matter- there are any amount of cases in Ireland where mistaken payments were made to people and the money spent-,a conviction and jail time followed- it won’t happen immediately but for those who won’t engage with the banks it’s an option

Anyone with a small deposit that withdrew 1000 + should be laughed out of court

A certain percentage will get away with this but I really hope they get the majority back and I have zero sympathy for anyone who is penalised for this

Or try and keep control of the stupid people who might kick off when they couldn't "access their money" ?

The difference is they were notified of what happened with the bank. I'm sure if they were notified before crimes took place they would do their best to be there on time

It's not that you're wrong.. but you have a very high opinion of our legal and justice system if you believe that!

Unfortunately the reality is that the system allows people with dozens or hundreds of convictions to roam the streets, allows feral teens to attack tourists and innocents on the city streets without fear of reprisal, and open drug dealing day and night.

The only ones who are punished by our system are those who are generally law-abiding but get done for things like speeding, not paying a TV license in protest of RTE's internal mismanagement or because they never watch it etc. - ie: productive ordinary people who face up to their actions and engage.

Don't be fooled by the current high-profile Garda operation in Dublin either. As soon as the media moves onto other things, so too will "Business as usual" be restored.

It was all over social media that people were indenting to go to ATM's to commit a crime. When someone flags their intent to commit a crime, expect the guards to turn up at the location where that say they intend to commit said crime. The guards were in fact protecting the people trying to fraudulently withdraw money from their own stupidity

If those who committed the assault in temple bar had flagged their intent to commit the crime on social media in advance, I would have expected the guards to turn up also.

Because it’s happened before- someone on this thread posted two Irish cases in previous pages of this thread - it’s also very much an open and shut case- the proof is there - it doesn’t require a confession really - the zeros and ones don’t lie 😀

Account being in negative and closed with an outstanding balance (if that happens) would impact on credit rating and make it very difficult in the future to get credit.

The big benefit will be to Revolut.

Hear hear! And I see posters referring to those who availed of the glitch as " tracksuit scrotes'. Well I'd have a lot more time for them than the fukkers in suits who wrecked the economy and continue ripping off the public to this day. As for the financial experts and "celebrity " consumer affairs experts on radio all day, don't get me started about those chancers!

So it's ok for those last night to rob but the "fuckers in suits , financial experts and celebrity consumer affairs experts " are worse ?

Think what you like about these people but there is no justification for those who jumped on the bandwagon last night

Had many change of bank requests this morning? 😂