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During the second half of the 1995–2007 'Celtic Tiger' period of growth, the international bond borrowings of the six main Irish banks—Bank of Ireland, Allied Irish Banks, Anglo Irish Bank, Irish Life & Permanent, Irish Nationwide Building Society and Educational Building Society—grew from less than €16 billion in 2003 to approximately €100 billion (well over half of Ireland's GDP ...
In 1922, Bank of Ireland was appointed as banker to the Government of Ireland. [10] In 1926, Bank of Ireland took control of the National Land Bank. [6] [11] In 1948, The Bank of Ireland 1783–1946 by F.G. Hall was published jointly by Hodges Figgis (Dublin) and Blackwell's (Oxford). [12] In 1958, the bank took over the Hibernian Bank Limited. [6]
By August 2011 the largest of the six state-guaranteed banks, Bank of Ireland, had a market capitalisation of €2.86 billion, [103] but loans to the six by the ECB and the Irish Central Bank were about €150 billion. [104] Consumer research by British discount retailer Poundland found that the term "eurozone" had negative associations.
Transport for Ireland said its apps were down due to the outage. [195] Ireland's Road Safety Authority said it was experiencing "significant disruption" to its National Car Test (NCT) centres. [196] In Singapore, the entrance and exit gantries of over 185 car parks managed by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) were affected. [197]
Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Danske Bank; First Active; ICS Building Society (previously Irish Civil Service Building Society) – investment shares acquired in 1984 by Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland as well as society savers but ran separately for a period until a legislative change after the 1987 General Election.
It was the largest bank robbery in Ireland's history. Criminals engaged in the tiger kidnapping of a junior bank employee, 24-year-old Shane Travers, and forced him to remove €7.6 million (US$9 million) [1] in cash from the bank as his girlfriend and two others were held hostage. [2]
The Central Bank of Ireland (Irish: Banc Ceannais na hÉireann) is the Irish member of the Eurosystem and had been the monetary authority for Ireland from 1943 to 1998, issuing the Irish pound. It is also the country's main financial regulatory authority , and since 2014 has been Ireland's national competent authority within European Banking ...
Brian Goggin is an Irish banker and former CEO of the Bank of Ireland, Ireland's second largest bank. He took over from Michael Soden in June 2004. He was due to retire in summer 2009 after forty years with Bank of Ireland. He instead retired in February 2009, two days before the Bank of Ireland robbery by which time Richie Boucher had replaced ...