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Flush with cash

Mar 13th, 2010 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Personal Columns

The icon brought memories of 1979.

The cashtill beside the Dun Laoghaire Allied Irish Bank has a notice with little pictures to show which cards may be used to withdraw cash; amongst them was a picture of an Ulster Bank servicecard as it appeared sometime in the past.  It followed the example of its parent company, National Westminster Bank in having a card coloured white, caramel and orange.  It was not the most striking piece of design; even in 1979 it looked like something from a decade before, had there…