ATM delivers festive ‘bonus’ in Mayo

Christmas came early to customers of Ulster Bank in the West — thanks to an ATM glitch.

ATM delivers festive ‘bonus’ in Mayo

The machine at the Claremorris branch began to spew out amounts of cash more than twice what individual customers had entered into the keypad.

The result was that an unknown number of card-holders walked off with funds for a Christmas shopping spree way in excess of what they had been planning.

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