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'People just like to be part of the moment' - Crazy news stories to come out of Ireland

One quick scan of the news today will tell you there’s one story dominating the press, and that’s the incident with Bank of Ireland’s technical issue that allowed customers to withdraw more money than they had in their accounts from their ATMs. T his might seem mad, but mad news stories are actually something of a common recurrence in this country. One man who knows all about that is the columnist behind ‘Surrealing in the Years’, Carl Kinsella - he joined Sean to discuss some of the mad stories to make the news down the years...

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14.17 16 Aug 2023


'People just like to be part of the moment' - Crazy news stories to come out of Ireland


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14.17 16 Aug 2023


One quick scan of the news today will tell you there’s one story dominating the press, and that’s the incident with Bank of Ireland’s technical issue that allowed customers to withdraw more money than they had in their accounts from their ATMs. T

his might seem mad, but mad news stories are actually something of a common recurrence in this country.

One man who knows all about that is the columnist behind ‘Surrealing in the Years’, Carl Kinsella - he joined Sean to discuss some of the mad stories to make the news down the years...


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