Banking hotline inundated

MORE THAN 6,000 calls were made to a banking hotline in the past three months, with the majority related to credit cards.

The emergency hotline, set up by Bank of Ireland last May, has answered around 600 inquiries every week with 43% of callers looking for advice on credit cards.

Calls from holidaymakers checking funds, others who had reached their limit and were running out of money and those who had forgotten their PIN also flooded the hotline.