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06 Sept 2025

ALERT: Irish bank apologises following crash of its mobile app and online banking portal

Customers express huge annoyance over service outage

ALERT: Irish bank apologises following crash of its mobile app and online banking portal

Customers were unable to log into the Bank of Ireland app or its online services for several hours

Bank of Ireland has apologised to the thousands of customers who were impacted by a crash of its mobile banking app and its 365 online services this Friday morning.

Friday-the-13th has proven unlucky for Bank of Ireland which has confirmed the services were down for a number of hours.

However, the bank announced shortly after 1pm that the issue had been resolved and that the services had been restored.

Earlier, representatives of the bank - one of the largest in Ireland - were inundated with complaints from frustrated customers on social media who were unable to access their online banking.

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One X user expressed their frustration: "Once a month now, time to switch to a more up to date bank at this stage."

Another user said: "the app is down now once or twice a month it's ridiculous."

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