Irish Examiner View: Put money on a cashless future

Consumers are switching from cash to electronic payments at a dramatic and accelerating rate to try to insulate themselves from that great, metaphorical and actual, conduit of infection - cash.

Withdraw money in banknotes from an ATM in Italy

Money still makes the world go around but the form that essential lubricant takes is changing very quickly. That change has accelerated as Covid-19 19 makes our old normal close enough to unsustainable and certainly unwise.