Application shows there can be life after death for a bank

IF anything epitomises the near-death experience of Ireland’s banking system it must be the planning application to turn a once-thriving bank premises into a funeral home.

That, according to an Taisce, is what is happening in the local authority area of Fingal in north Dublin.

“We fell around laughing,” said An Taisce’s chairman Charles Stanley-Smith yesterday as they perused the application.