The Bank of Ireland is being criticised for abandoning local communities after it announced it is closing 88 branches nationwide with a number in the south east
They are at Taghmon and Rosslare in Wexford Carnew and Rathdrum in Wicklow, Callan, Graiguenamanagh, Thomastown and Urlingford in Kilkenny, in Carlow Borris and Tullow branches will close and in Waterford Ardkeen, Kilmacthomas and Lismore are set to shut come september
Community leaders in all counties have the condemned the announcement