Councillors label AIB's decision on cashless branches as "total disregard to rural Ireland"

Galway Bay fm newsroom - Local councillors are labelling AIB's decision to make some branches cashless as a "total disregard to rural Ireland".

Yesterday, the bank confirmed 70 branches, including seven across Galway, will no longer have cash services from Autumn.

Branches undergoing the change include Athenry, Ballinasloe, Clifden, Gort, Oranmore,Salthill and Spiddal.

"Crazy" - that's how councillor Pádraig Mac an Iomaire describes it, while Dermot Connolly says it's a retrograde step.

And councillor Gerry Finnerty is wondering what is rural Ireland going to lose next:

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