Given the recent decision by AIB to remove banking services (No coins, notes, cheques, foreign exchange, bank drafts, on site, removing drop and night safes, ATM's outside) in 70 branches across the country, which will severely impact on our clubs, players and supporters, has the time come to reconsider AIB's sponsorship of our 2022 All-Ireland club championship? Do AIB really consider and implement corporate social responsibility and should the GAA hierarchy try to influence the situation at this time? I personally believe the GAA hierarchy should get involved behind the scenes as I find it very difficult to look at advertisements by the bank industry involving our GAA games at the moment.
I would prefer if posters stuck to answering the above questions re sponsorship, rather than people having a historical knock-all-banks rant, perhaps based on difficult personal experiences. Maybe I am asking too much!
Replying To letsgetgoing: "Given the recent decision by AIB to remove banking services (No coins, notes, cheques, foreign exchange, bank drafts, on site, removing drop and night safes, ATM's outside) in 70 branches across the country, which will severely impact on our clubs, players and supporters, has the time come to reconsider AIB's sponsorship of our 2022 All-Ireland club championship? Do AIB really consider and implement corporate social responsibility and should the GAA hierarchy try to influence the situation at this time? I personally believe the GAA hierarchy should get involved behind the scenes as I find it very difficult to look at advertisements by the bank industry involving our GAA games at the moment.
I would prefer if posters stuck to answering the above questions re sponsorship, rather than people having a historical knock-all-banks rant, perhaps based on difficult personal experiences. Maybe I am asking too much!"
Just heard the good news that AIB have reversed their decision. Mad decision in the first place. However the GAA should continue to consider corporate social responsibility before agreeing a sponsorship deal.
Replying To letsgetgoing: "Just heard the good news that AIB have reversed their decision. Mad decision in the first place. However the GAA should continue to consider corporate social responsibility before agreeing a sponsorship deal."
All that's happened here is that AIB jumped the fence before the good auld Government published their review into banking.... the optics look terrible. Mark my words, AIB will go ahead with this at some point in the future and likely when their sponsorship of the GAA ends. You think the lads in suits at AIB HQ give a **** about rural ireland?
They should have closed a few big branches in Dublin as a trial and seen how it went!!! They won't revisit this, the panic they had yesterday and today when rural TD's and councillors started telling people to take their money out and move to Bank of Ireland, Credit Unions and the post office. There was going to be a run on them. They are some shower. The Government who are the biggest shareholder need to hammer them and the profits they make. The central bank need to get a backbone also and remind them cash is king and legal tender.
Replying To Ulsterchamps72: "They should have closed a few big branches in Dublin as a trial and seen how it went!!! They won't revisit this, the panic they had yesterday and today when rural TD's and councillors started telling people to take their money out and move to Bank of Ireland, Credit Unions and the post office. There was going to be a run on them. They are some shower. The Government who are the biggest shareholder need to hammer them and the profits they make. The central bank need to get a backbone also and remind them cash is king and legal tender."
I couldn't disagree with you more. The fact of the matter is that the suits in AIB got caught out by announcing something they hadn't flagged to the Government in advance. The people still using cash and cheques are not very profitable to the bank anyhow so mark my words this is only postponed until the next opportunity to do it comes along. It will happen and my advise to those living in the areas affected is to start encouraging the local credit union to get an ATM available 24 hours a day. AIB will eventually leave these communities high and dry. The local run credit union model is the future for rural locations such as Ballinamore (who in fairness came out strongly against AIB, and fair play to them as it definitely got the ball moving).