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ATMS ACROSS IRELAND will soon start dispensing €10 notes as part of the National Payments Plan, it was revealed today.
Spokesperson for the Central Bank told TheJournal.ie that the change will come into effect after the summer.
He also confirmed that €10 notes will not be available from every ATM – just a percentage.
The move has been welcomed by Labour TD Ciarán Lynch who has lobbied the Central Bank on the issue to ensure those on tight budgets have access to all of their money.
“Currently the minimum withdrawal from ATMs is €20, and it can even be difficult to find a machine that dispenses this amount. For those who are on lower incomes, this limits the access they have to their money.”
He says he hopes the plan will be extended to all ATMs around the country.
“While this development will benefit all ATM users, it will have the biggest impact on lower income families, and I am glad that consideration is being given to the harsh realities many families are facing, where budgets are extremely tight and access to all available funds is crucial.”
The spokesperson for the Central Bank said the regulator believes the decision will be beneficial for both consumers and retailers.
There are currently no plans to introduce smaller denominations to ATMs.
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I’m with James May on this one. Clarkson is annoying, arrogant and opinionated (most of those opinions I disagree with) but he is a decent human being with a sense of right and wrong. No way he’d stoop so low. Even if he mumbled the word, there’d surely be no racial connotations attached.
yeah he annoys alot of people but i have to say i do enjoy his take on alot of things. obviously not when its racist but he does speak his mind on things and i respect that
Tom Ripley (love that , by the way)…. I agree that he speaks his mind, what bothers me is that he is so very small minded that he must get rid of one idea in order for another to enter.
I have seen him on so many ‘shows’ from comedy to political and he spits out the same old same old that I wonder if he has more than one sentence to export to the rest of us. He certainly has no ideas to share beyond driving a car – pretty one dimensional character by any standard.
I don’t believe he is a conscious racist because I doubt he has the intellectual capacity to grasp what that means. If he had the benefit of the money that was spent on his education he would have refused outright to even say that rhyme precisely because of the content.
Sadly, Jeremy Clarkson is what he is – an educated idiot.
…but he did rake in £14M last year for his directorship share of the company that makes TopGear for the BBC and all its merchandising division dvds etc and the shows franchised the copy and paste format around the world….so he doesnt give two flying f#%ks.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jul/16/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-bbc-worldwide
Davie O’Connor, that is one of the problems. Being rich and being intelligent are not the same thing at all.
I am not sure if you are endorsing racism providing the racist is rich or whether you are endorsing racism regardless of income.
If he didn’t give two flying f*%ks he wouldn’t be on youtube apologising. Someone told him to apologise (he wouldn’t have the intellectual wherewithal to figure it out for himself) because his behaviour was rude and stupid.
I absolutely hate the man with a passion but this is just ridiculous
I always loved that song by Christy Moore , Bxxxk is the Colour
I always loved that song by Christy Moore , Bxxxk is the Colour
What’s with the xxx’s? Is the word Black now offensive even when not used to refer to a person?
Bluechip.. Yup! Your slow close but yeah that’s the joke..
We said it as youngsters in the school yard …… We knew no difference then
Wouldn’t be the first time the word bigger was used what’s all the fuss about
So he did use the n word but mumbled it still used it think everybody should let him away with it he made a mistake he is an asrehole but I don’t think he means any harm.
Anyone older then 15 would have used the original version of eenie meanie miney moe.
What a lame story this is.
In reality, he chose to mumble; thus emphasising the word. No need. Like o Leary looking for free advertising. But who cares. He’s no Donald Sterling.
Just to be clear, he mumbled it on 2 out-takes and used “teacher” in the aired episode…. this is a pointless story…..
He’s not a racist, he’s a very naughty boy. Tabloid witch hunt.
Daily mail, mirror, sun, etc, all papers that pick stuff out of the gutter that reputable news sources reject!
Given some of the racist articles these rags have printed in the past it’s a bit rich for them to be calling anyone racist.
Is anyone else getting fed up of this politically correct bulls**t? While we fail to tackle the real injustices in society easy targets are found for the righteous to be indignant.
It’s political correctness gone MAD is what it is!!
Jeremy Clarkson should be able to say what the hell he wants. He’s a presenter of a car show, where he sits in cars and they go fast. He has earned the right to slag off black people and Mexicans and French people…and Belgians and sex workers and essentially act like Richard Littlejohn except for the 7 chins and the lavish attention he spends on the LGBT community!
What next? Take the letter N out of the alphabet. If it’s ok for “African Americans” to use the n word then why the fxxk is it not for whites.
Bus wanking naggers, that glorifîed ad of a programme should go head on with tactful cancer and timely road deaths!
Can’t believe you are ACTUALLY asking that question Shawn!!
You are the height of just too-muchery!!
Americans think everyone with dark skin is an African American. I’ve heard them refer to Australian Aborigines, Inhabitants of the West Indies and actual African folks as African Americans. They just can’t imagine a world outside their own those yanks.
Some say, he’s annoying and irritating… But we know him as “Clarkson”
Enie menie miny mo, catch an n word by the toe! …. Oh come on give us a break!!! At least insult someone before you post a bloody apology!!
Haha fact!!
Ironic reading the hate-filled comments directed at Clarkson by people who apparently abhor hate-fulled slang.
I’m the only one whose made a hate-filled comment, and I made no reference to abhorring hate-filled slang. I just said I’m delighted his mouth has finally caught up with him, that’s all.
Oh for f$¥ks sake, now I really have seen it all. Get a grip people. So what? You don’t like him? I don’t think he cares. Small minded people on a non issue. The vast majority of us grew up with this rhyme and golly wog dolls etc, by all your reasoning we should all be racists then.
Clarkson mot a racist. He’s for doing the munbling word bit. I reckon its someone who’s friendly with his arch rival piers morgan. Its the mirror after all.
Give the man a break, he is a great entertainer. Who hear has never said the ‘n’ word inoffensive! As mentioned in previous comments, it’s the usual Mirror trying to blow things out of proportion.
FFS you can’t say boo now and you are racist sick of this now ,
or a fascist.
It has to be the most devalued word on the internet.
you being ironic?
Certain musicians and filmmakers use this word like confetti at a wedding. Oh but that’s cultural/contextual they say. Nonsense. It’s just hypocritical to bleat that others cannot use the same terminology as you as if they’ve ownership rights to a word. Either ban the word outright or leave Clarkson entertain us without fear of being muzzled
Silly Jeremy….it’s “catch a tiger by the toe” (it wasn’t so PC when I was a kid though)
when I was a lil wee ‘un, the word I used was ‘knickers’, is it what some gutter rag are jumping the gun to blow it out of proportion?
It’s Clarkson. Come on. He’s a muppet, but he’s our muppet and the vast majority of people love him for it!! Slow news day for the pro-Piers Morgan camp
That rhyme was used as a standard to pick who was ‘on’ in a game of tag etc.,.
That was back in the sixties, in the east end of London in the street where I lived, with Black, White, Pakistani and Indian kids. Nobody I knew back then was offended by it.
We also had gollywogs, which are now deemed offensive and racist. They were not, they were a replication of a doll made in the backwoods of america from the mothers old black skirts and white shirts. All the kids I knew had a gollywog, including me.
Clarksons my generation, remember that.
Gerrymandering is also your generation. Doesn’t mean it’s right
I have no idea what gerrymandering is Barry, never heard of it.
All I am trying to say is people have become too sensitive, and get offended at the slightest thing, whether it is the spoken word or even a child’s toy.
That’s very interesting Molly. Back in the sixties in Dublin, we were told to stop repeating that rhyme with the word nig@€r and replace it with tigger. It struck us as strange being children. Why would our childish utterances be of such a concern to adults, that they would teach us to change a word that they had taught us? Was this the birthplace of political correctness?.
Secondly, and admittedly off topic, just because someone refers to racist language, that does not make them a racist. The language filter is too blunt an instrument, if it takes offence at the word offence, soon it will take offence at the word :;(())))€&..
Dhakina’s sword, it is not often I agree with your point of view, but with regards to this subject I do.
Language and it’s perception change through generations, when I was a child you never called a black person black – they were coloured, and if you did call them black they would get highly offended. Nowadays if you call them coloured it is considered racist.
It can become very confusing sometimes.
Gerrymandering was what happened in Derry back in the 60s where the unionists rigged the voting to favour themselves over nationalists.
Thanks for that Barry, hence I gave you a thumbs up.
I was only a nipper back in the 60′s more interested in playing on the street with my multicultural friends than the shenanigans the adults got up to in NI.
Jeremy Clarkson ,
Was,
Is
And always will be
A special kinda stupid….
The obvious question is why is he apologising then…??
Because he knows he’s finally gone too far. Crocodile tears.
Cpm, go suck a gentleman sausage.
Yeah yeah, very interesting, but what cars was he driving? I think they need a new track. We all know the Top Gear Circuit by heart at this stage.
This is the UK were talking about. There are so many black, muslim, eastern european people in the UK, their society is clinging to a very uneasy balance.
The UK’s institutional political correctness might seem ridicilulous to us but thats because we arn’t overrun with foreigners like they are yet. It’s the UK’s political correctness that keeps their divided society at an uneasy status quo. It has no choice but to be relentlessly liberal or there would be carnage in their streets
Rather their country than mine
So many Paddys there as well? Micks go home!
You are some f*cking tool.
You’re absolutely right, there’s a heap of our own there too. Man I never wanted to piss anyone off :/
The house I’m in at the moment doesn’t recieve RTÉ, TG4 or TV3, so I’ve watched a lot of BBC (before I got sick of it). What I said above is just an observation. Sorry again man if I offended you but I’m not taking any of it back, because I believe it’s true.
Thumbed you up for the craic bud
He sounds like a nasty piece of work, regardless of whether he’s racist or not, he’s certainly prejudiced against anyone who isn’t as overpaid and establishment as he is.
Dont think so Stephen, he’s a bit of a twit but i dont think he has a bad bone in his body
I find him a repellent Conservative-voting tw*t.
I find you an ignorant basta*d and a tw*at.
Oh sorry, are you a fan? Apparently David Cameron dressed up as Stig at his 50th birthday party so you’re in good company!
I have no problems with him, not like I know the man on a personal level, do you? Didn’t think so. I enjoy top gear and find him to be funny with his opinions and views. Maybe you’re jealous of him Stephen? And yes, I am sure David Cameron did. Get a life and stop winging about celebrities who you are clearly envious of.
Hey I’m not whinging about anyone, I’m simply expressing dislike of Jeremy Clarkson on the basis of his oft-expressed right-wing views on practically every subject under the sun. We only needed a bit of racist slang to complete the picture, and lo and behold we have it!. But, sorry, i didn’t realise you could only comment about somebody that you know personally! Please excuse my ignorance.
Excellent comeback and thank you for the subtle spell correcting on whinge. He is not racist and it is bizarre for you to think people would watch the show if he were racist. Most of his views etc are purely for entertainment and so get views and make people laugh and obviously to win up the couple of morons like yourself.
Hey I wasn’t ‘subtly ‘spell correcting’, I’m not into that kind of petty one-upmanship. I don’t know whether he’s racist or not, I just think he has a particular establishment view of the world which may or may not include a bit of casual racism. I just don’t like what I know of the man, and you do, so let’s leave it that! It seems silly two strangers arguing about someone we’ll probably never meet.
what all three of them said about Mexicans was pretty racist so Clarkson isn’t the misunderstood soul you think he is, Finbar!!
Also “One-Eyed Scottish idiot” about Gordon Brown? Slagging off blind people?
The man has a history of letting his mouth run and THEN apologising! There is only so many times that “shocking” becomes “down right racially offensive”!!
Ffs. One eyed has nothing to do with blindness…
Gordon Brown became blind in one eye so yes it DOES have to do with blindness!
No.. If he was to be about blindness he would have said “that blind Scottish idiot”.
Gavin, that description is, to a lot of UK residents, factual. The person referred to does have one eye, is Scottish and is thought by many to be an idiot or worse. Would referring to Alex Salmond as that two-eyed Scottish idiot be offensive to other fully-sighted people ?
Also, if someone is actually blind are we not allowed to refer to them as such ? I think the UK still has a Blind Person’s Allowance which isn’t deemed offensive. Guide Dogs for the Blind ? Must we now refer to Venetian Blinds as “Vertically folding blockers of light from windows” so as not to offend the un-sighted natives of Venice ? All a bit of a non-issue, IMO.
Some people put a lot of effort into finding offence where none exists or was intended. For those who hate Clarkson; don’t watch Top Gear or read his writings.
the point was he was using a disability as a term of offence! He didn’t have to say “one-eyed” he could have said “Scottish idiot” and still be known to be the xenophobic person that he is!!
Depends. One eyed also means of a set bias or opinion…
Can’t stand the fat, arrogant, obnoxious pr1ck. Delighted the Daily Mirror has exposed this, even though I wouldn’t read the rag.
Exposed what?
Ah he’s not as bad as you though…
Exposed what he said – reading comprehension issues, Cian?
No cpm. To expose is to reveal something hidden. There is nothing being hidden here.
Read the article, Cian, difficult as it might be.
An apology? This is the same guy that came out with a statement such as “civil servants should be shot on front of their family” blaming us for instability in the economy referring to circumstances in UK….now may be I am wrong on that I don’t know just heard lots of grievance. What a bollix anyway! !
This is Clarkson – what else would you expect – he’s as lethal as Prince Philip.
“Lorry driving – not difficult – drive for hours – then stop rape someone…”, then we had the “Roma Hat” in Romania, the shooting of civil servants, Gordon Brown, poor people, ecologically minded people, cyclists, motorcyclists, pedestrians, women, americans, australians, homosexuals, THE FRENCH, The Germans, Chinese, Indians, …………he’s just about insulted everyone in his own tongue in cheek creating the image way he has about him. I cant stand the guy…….but watch him on TV just to hear what bo11ox he’ll come out with. However I dont believe he sets out to cause offense – he’s like a child trapped in an adults body.
He should have said at the end of the video “and on that bombshell….”
The mirror should hang their heads in shame. Anything to sell their 20p rags.
I don’t normally comment on here, but for god’s sake, it’s a nursery rhyme. End of….. He didn’t go shouting the word in a derogatory manner at any poor black men or women. Daily Mail clearly looking for a ratings hike.
Jaysus, people have little to be giving out about. Everyone knows that Clarkson is not a Racist. People say things without thinking. Their’s no Malice in what he said. Get over yourselves people.
There’s a slope on that bridge…
Exactly chief thats another example, he tries to be funny in a Jim Davidson Kind of way, oh it’s not offensive it’s only having a laugh!!
Understandable that something so infectious as a children’s rhyme got ingrained in his head as a toddler.
That is if he even said the word “neacher.”
Just to corrected you it was actually Richard Hammond his co-presenter who offended the Mexicans. You know the journal is getting bad when it quotes the mirror and the daily mail. Jeremy’s career has spanned out of being offensive and outspoken. He has always taken the the rap for what he has said but definitely as regards the Mexican comments you should research a bit more re watch the episode and you will find it was Hammond and not Clarkson. Bad journalism is reporting on tv and movie personalities even worse journalism is getting your facts wrong on tv and movie personalities.
Another absolutely lame attempt at scraping the barrel for a story line.. the world we live in has gone way too politically correct it makes my blood boil sometimes.. rappers use this word every day and nobody bats an eyelid.. the journalist who put this to print must be stuck for a story or two.. this was one of many such rhymes if you can call it that from maybe 15 years ago and way back before that.. plenty of examples of this..if you didnt share your sweets when you were a kid you were called a “scabby *** ” many morw such sayings as this whicg we are all guilty of.. it shows how cut off we were from the rest of the word before we became a multi-cultural society.. im sure on Jeromys part he rattled of these words in the most innocent way possible and no malice was intended…
if a black person shouted cracker or honky well… no one would complain but laugh…all this victim card bullcrap
Political correctness gone mad. Rap artists and black people have been using the N word as a term of endearment to each other for years so what the problem?
I was at a party in NY a few years ago and it was N this and N that, what’s up my N.
I didn’t use it but I did feel like going over and saying hey how are all you N’s doing?
Ok so i cant use the n word or use any racial terms so what happens if im called white
Niger
Honestly…..so friggin what if he said it! It was an old school yard song that we said as kids. He did:nt use the word in reference to anyone or in anger so just bloody well get over this PC/thought crime rubbish. 1984 may not be fiction after all.
Ok how many of us used that rhyme as kids? I know we did.. Has everything gone so politically correct?
And how come nicki minage and countless others in the music industry all over the papers for saying niger it’s every second word in there songs People need to cop on.
Jeremy, you are a plank sometimes like we all,are, but you are not a racist, must have been a no news day….
Dermot, you are an even BIGGER plank thank Clarkson !
…than Clarkson… Sorry huge hands, little iPad. And anyway dont take yourself too seriously!
Political Correctness gone mad. The Mirror calling someone racist…..now there’s irony for you.
For #uck sake black people call each other the ‘N’ word everyday so who cares anyway..!!!! #uck the papers they are only all low life’s every last one of them
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A bigot is a bigot is a bigot I’m afraid. Can’t have a public profile job and say something like that. He will have to fall on his sword I’m afraid.
When’s your cannonisation Dermot holier than thou Hession?
Dermot, fall on his sword ? That made we laugh. Thank you.
Clarkson appears to be easily led by his own script writers and it’s the inference of the word that matters, to get attention for an ass on what is just a TV production about motorcars. No wonder he has trouble getting into some models it’s either his arse, ego or oversized head that gets him into these uncomfortable tight spots even before he opens his trap
Anyone else have to look up the rhyme to see what the PC version was? Clarkson may not even have realised and then got told and did a retake. Whoever leaked it is the bad guy here.
at what point are we going to stop buying the sun/mirror and star?In this “age of excess” a LOT of material is being wasted,just so plebs(like me) can read what Jose Mourinho did this time
Disgusting man.
Nagger?
Many of you forget that this word has a direct connection with slavery and discrimination of black people. Slavery that reduces human beings to the state of beasts and object! It is an offensive and insulting word and should be condemned!
Eeny meeny miny mo catch a niger by the toe.we all used to say that as kids
This is not the first time this bloated antiquated twerp has made such comments – why forgive such a disingenuous comment – better an outy racist than a covert one. I care not what this dinosaur has to say.
Can someone tell me why it is ok for black people to use that word when addressing each other in films and TV ,and as soon as any other race says it all hell Breaks out, when we are called paddy or mick do we cry over it.
Nuts. Sounds like he didn’t say it . The producers probably should have picked a different rhyme, these were rushes anyway , sounds like he brushed over that bit while in the middle of a piece he was tryin to remember and say off, articles like this are a waste of paper they’re written on, people’s character assassinated to sell papers , he’s a bit of a Muppet sometimes but that no reason to be moving to call someone a racist,
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