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AIB HAS INFORMED the Gardaí of a possible fraud involving the theft of up to €5m from customer accounts taken from a former employee of Anglo Irish Bank.
It is understood that the money may have been taken in small amounts from a number of customer accounts by a former senior executive at Anglo, deposits from which were transferred to AIB in February.
AIB was informed about the potential fraud by a customer who spotted an irregularity in a deposit account.
RTÉ said the senior official may have perpetrated the fraud by moving cash between accounts to ensure that any funds were available for customers whenever they were needed.
RTÉ and newspapers say it is their understanding that the official is now deceased.
AIB said its customers would not suffer any financial loss, and that it would absorb any potential losses itself.
The Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigations is working on the investigation with both Anglo and AIB, and the Central Bank has been informed.
If the stream is so polluted and the only solution is deemed to be the use of bleach, there is something very wrong with the council employees’ thought processes.
Tracking and stopping the source of the pollution in a stream would be too much trouble.
@Bramley Hawthorne: This is Water infrastructure, you start from the symptoms and work back, then give up and just keep paying lip service to the symptoms regardless of the actual state of things. In fairness we’re lucky they didn’t just start charging for use of the beaches.
Insane. These streams might be polluted, well lets make sure and dump a load of chemicals into them. And these people are in charge…?
I’d rather buy a bottle of water in aldi. Haven’t drank water from a council running tap for years now. Always boil yer water folks just for safe measure.
I’ve been saying about the amount of chlorine in our drinking water for years now it’s disgusting it smells like a swimming pool. Then add a dose of fluoride, have had to buy bottled water for about 12 years now maybe more!
@Colette Kearns: i regularly test water mains for chlorine as a control test for testing the chlorine levels of a spa swimming pool, Ive never had the control test show the presence of chlorine. Mind you thats not to say there aren’t other chemicals present such as flouride
@G man: a sane response on jouranal! I must be getting old..
@Colette Kearns: I use a reverse osmosis filter for all drinking and cooking water. The last time I did an analysis the water rain in the rain butt was purer than the unfiltered tap water.
@G man: Not sure what source the spa is taking water from, but chlorine is added to virtually all public water supply with the exception of some group water schemes.
@David Dineen: yea you are you look ancient
Waterford has backed it’s own decision but it is time to reconsider. It is a stream not a swimming pool. And be a bit more transparent also. Someone shouldn’t have to smell bleach for this issue to come to light.
Crazy! Work upstream with a testing kit and eliminate the sourc(es) of the pollution “disinfecting” a living stream is an obscenity.
Are you for real??
Hazard Statement H400. ” Very Toxic to aquatic life”. That’s from the Material Safety Data Sheet for Sodium Hypochloride. Case Closed.
@Glen Kearns: Aloho is listened as a poison but people drink in in lesser strengths. Same with this stuff.
“now hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face”… because chemicals are melting them. Lol.
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