BOI to install 500 new ATMs nationwide

Bank of Ireland has announced plans to install 500 new cash-dispensing machines in shops and other retail locations as part of a €15m investment in its ATM infrastructure.

The expansion is the final phase of a project that has already seen the bank expand, upgrade and re-brand its ATM service at branch locations nationwide.

Patrick Waldron, a director at Bank of Ireland, said: "There is increasing demand for access to cash in locations that match consumers’ lifestyle needs.

"We are regularly canvassed to install ATMs in a variety of locations, but until now, didn’t have an economically viable basis for doing so.

"The [new] machines have a lower cost infrastructure and can be installed in low-volume sites that, in the past, could not have justified a traditional ATM."