Bank of Ireland’s latest moves shows this is no country for old men

I wish to protest in the strongest possible terms to the recent announcement from the Bank of Ireland.

They now say that the minimum amount that can be withdrawn over the counter in their branches is €700. Are they not aware that this is more than three times the old age pension?

So now pensioners and other social welfare recipients will have to wait four weeks to get their money and some of these people need this money weekly.

Recently, An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny stated in public that he had been advised by the Governor of the Central Bank that it might be necessary to deploy the army to protect the banks’ ATMs. Might I now suggest that Kenny should now call out the army to protect not the banks but the OAPs and others now compelled to withdraw large sums of cash. They will now be the target of every pickpocket, bag snatcher, and thief in town.

It has been reported some time ago that An Tánaiste, Joan Burton, stated that social welfare payments would in the near future not be paid into An Post but into the toxic banks.

In the title of the recent movie this country is certainly not ‘A Country for Old Men’.

Mike Mahon

Kilvere Park

Templeogue

Dublin 6W