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AIB’S NORTHERN IRELAND operation First Trust is refunding £347,187 to thousands of customers who were incorrectly charged fees.
The bank said that the issue affects 8,805 customers and the average refund is £40 and includes compensatory interest.
The issue arose when the bank manually added fees to certain accounts which should have been exempt from the charges, and First Trust has apologised to the customers affected by the error.
In May, AIB announced it was refunding €8.3 million including compensatory interest to people who had unsuccessfully attempted to withdraw cash from ATMs and had their accounts debited.
The bank said that new anti-fraud measures had meant that some accounts were debited for withdrawals in which customers had not actually received the cash.
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And we brought one of them here to build up transparency and trust to our force.
@DavidOReilly: a disgraceful situation
How come we Irish tolerate one of that gang as head of our police.
@James Wallace: huh??
@Patricia Mcnamara: I know where you’re coming from Patricia but, look at the s(um that was in there before him. I agree he shouldn’t be there either but…..
@Patricia Mcnamara: If you have followed his actions without bias you’ll see he has brought about some real change. He is the perfect man for the job. He will be a useful tool for keeping open relations with NI in the coming years. Harris is also familiar with UK intelligence, which is something we have always outsourced to the Brits.
Appears that collusion continued even after the RUC were disbanded.
@Joe Johnson: probably because the RUC were never really disbanded.
@Joe Johnson: Changing a name is not disbanding an organization. Same shyte, different bucket!
Why am I not surprised?
Archaic IT sys and human error being blamed but they all relate to loyalist attacks. Some coincidence.
@Shelly Levine: I believe it. Human error was only deleting it to the recycle bin. Old IT system meant it didn’t automatically clear the recycle bin at intervals so was never fully deleted.
Likely story. I wonder if any files have been found on the murder of Pat Finucane? Absolutely rotten organisation.
@Bingobango: but was it not war..as Gerry says..and Mr Finucane was most definitely only on one side
@SF Ankle Tapper:
Eh….he wasn’t. He represented loyalist paramilitaries as well.
@SF Ankle Tapper: are you peddling that blatant lie as some form of justification for the killing of a solicitor by UDA/UFF, a gang which contained at least 2 paid agents of British/ RUC forces?????
@M Bowe: One of his brothers, John, a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) member, was killed in a car crash in the Falls Road, Belfast, in 1972. Another brother, Dermot, successfully contested attempts to extradite him to Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland for his part in the killing of a prison officer; he was one of 38 IRA prisoners who escaped from HMP Maze in 1983. A third brother Seamus was the fiancé of Mairead Farrell, one of the IRA trio shot dead by the Special Air Service(SAS) in Gibraltar in March 1988.[17] Seamus was the leader of an IRA unit in west Belfast before his arrest in 1976 with Bobby Sands and seven other IRA men, during an attempt to destroy Balmoral’s furniture store in south Belfast. He was sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment.[18]
@SF Ankle Tapper: so that justifies the police special branch and british government ministers colluding to get him murdered bu loyalist paramilitaries. Wise up.
@SF Ankle Tapper: and that justifies hus murder? My young brother in law was shot dead in the bookies o involement in anything are you going to try and justify that?
@SF Ankle Tapper: Showing you true colours now.. And none of what you posted justifies murder .. Shall I now poste and load of stuff about Loyalitsts ? No I wont, why , becasue there was a peace process and a line was drawn in the sand, but its idiots like you who want to bring back the one side of the past while completley ignoring the other side which was the root casue
@SF Ankle Tapper: I suggest you read the book Rebel Hearts by Kevin Tollis.. It documents the night when the Finucanne Family were burned out of their home at the start of the troubles. The family were boarded up into their house when the Loyalists came to evict them. The brothers were all huddled on the stairs crying and petrified listening to the Loyalists outside trying to get in.. The next morning the Loyalists came back and told their father if they weren’t out that day they were been burned with the house later that night.. Now that is why all the Finucame brothers choose the path they did.. Anyone would do the same
@David Garland: pfft
@SF Ankle Tapper: the bBritish government have coluded and orchestrated many deaths on this island over many many years, thierbtroops and police force have been shown to be guilty of many atrosities. Will you now say that justified the Republician armed force reaction to this?????
@SF Ankle Tapper: no he represented loyalists aswell
@SF Ankle Tapper: what did you expect them to sit back and watch loyalist mob’s burn them out. Be killed by the British interned with out a crime. Treated as second class no 3rd class citizens. If I was born in the north & had gone through what they did I would have been out trying to kill the British as well
This apology cannot be taken seriously everybody in the world knows that the RUC and PNSI have been withholding information for years and colluded with Loyalists on a lot of these murders .
@Donal Carey: just the same as the irish govt withhold info and docu ents from the northern govt. All the same shyte but different sides of the border. I am sure Gerry could tell a few tales as well.
“the cases relate to attacks which all involved loyalist paramilitaries”
Well what a shock that is! For them to even attempt to blame this on ‘human error and an archaic IT system’ just shows how they haven’t changed one iota.
Isn’t it the PSNI ..
And they.talk about the IRA
@Patricia Mcnamara: what documents have the IRA disclosed?
It was illegal to have documents relating to IRA activities so Republicans would need to have been mad to hold on to any. You see what happened with the Boston tapes. Of course, the RUC has said that they have millions of documents relating to IRA activities during the troubles and 25,000 Republicans did serve time in prison so I would imagine that they have documents relating to all those activities. That’s if they hav n’t lost them or passed them on to loyalist paramilitaries…..ahem.
@SF Ankle Tapper: The IRA disbanded, what loyalist paramilitaries disbanded ?
@SF Ankle Tapper: don’t try your blatant royalists faeces with me
@SF Ankle Tapper: what are you on about this is classic deflection. The state were supposed to protect its people not run agents to kill them then cover it up. People like you make me sick with your whataboutery all it does is let the state get away with it.
@Larry Doherty: yeah because the “republicans” were worried about doing something that was illegal. What a laugh.
@Mairtin Antaine O Conaill: this is state collusion in the murder of innocent people why do people always try to turn things to met their own agenda. My mother in law is an old woman of nearly 88 yrs of age and would like for the british state to do the decent thing and declare loud and clear that yes they colluded in these murders and yes they helped bring in the guns used in this massacre from south Africa and yes they gave one of the guns back to loyalist and explain why one of the firearms was on display in the british war museum.
Collusion between what’s termed the “security forces “ and there loyalist counter insurgency death squads has been an ongoing feature of life for nationalists / Republicans in the occupied six counties . One has only to read “Gangs and counter Gangs” by its architect General Sir Frank Edward Kitson to get a picture of what the British were up to . That the RUC / PSNI are still hiding the truth should come as a surprise to no one . Perhaps we should just ask Drew Harris as he is after all our new Garda Commissioner .
Not good enough!
Dont expect senior Gardaí to be lining up to become chief constable & clean out this corruption any day soon.
Funny they were all found shortly after drew Harris left the PSNI. He was involved in my parents murder case and the lack of disclosure at his behest was shocking.
Surely the new Garda commissioner will have a lot to answer over this?
He’s the former head of the psni/ruc, he obviously new about the collusion and his that information.
Will the Irish press go after him?
I highly doubt it.
Shame on that joke of a government for giving him the job in the first place, it’s an insult to all the Irish people that them animals killed up north while colluding with the police force and the British establishment!
Nothing new here, being policy for decades.
Surely the Garda commissioner will have a lot to answer over this?
He’s former head of the psni/ruc and it seems like he blatantly hid this information?
I really hope the Irish press are going to hound him out, but that’s highly unlikely as most of them are in Fine Gael pocket these days.
Another absolute embarrassment by the government and an insult to all the innocent Irish people them animals killed with the help of the police force and the british establishment!
Masons brotherhood PSNI all the same nothing to see here tàigs move along.Filthy to the core.Interesting to see what the blue shirts in power say about this!
They’re really taking the PSNI
Oh, FFS, it’s history. It can’t be changed. Move on.
@Smiley: no but we should learn from it or we are domed to repeat it’s horrors
@Smiley: if it was a member of your family could you move on?
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