Permanent TSB says problem with debit cards should be fixed now

Updated 12.46pm

PERMANENT TSB HAS apologised to customers for a problem which affected debit cards and ATM services today.

A number of customers had taken to social media to complain that they had been unable to withdraw money from ATMs or to use their debit cards when paying for things.

It is not clear how many customers had been affected.

PTSB said the problem should be fixed now.

“All issues with cards are sorted now, sorry again for any inconvenience this may have caused you,” Permanent TSB tweeted.

Earlier it had tweeted that the issues were affecting  ATM & POS [point of sale] transactions.

Customers had been detailing on Twitter how the glitch had affected them:

Originally published 12.31pm

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