AIB’s cashless plan U-turn ‘a victory for consumers’

AIB announced its decision not to proceed with cashless services on Friday. Picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

AIB’s climbdown on its decision to make 70 of its 170 branches cashless has been branded a “victory for consumers and common sense”.

There has been a broad welcome from community groups, sporting bodies and politicians to the U-turn by AIB, just 72 hours after it announced the plan.