CREDIT unions are to offer debit cards and electronic transfers in a move described as the biggest single change to the movement in decades.

A 20,000-member credit union yesterday took steps to rubbish what was described as “unfounded, vicious and scurrilous rumours” about its security.

GARDAÍ in Waterford have urged women not to walk alone in the city following a series of indecent assaults which may be linked.