Monthly Archives: September 2026

BOI doesn’t confirm your email address

Your new Bank of Ireland eStatement

FYI – if you open a Bank of Ireland account, please ensure you give them the correct email address or private correspondence will be sent to someone else.

Luckily, BOI is off the hook:

This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. It is possible for data transmitted by email to be deliberately or accidentally corrupted or intercepted. For this reason, where the communication is by email, the Bank of Ireland Group does not accept any responsibility for any breach of confidence which may arise through the use of this medium.

25 years ago

I was sitting at my desk in a small office in Ballincollig when John burst through the open doorway, “A plane has hit the World Trade Center!”

My office, a few years later.

The rest of the day was a blur, but someone found a TV and set it up in the next office, where John and Una worked, I think. We went in and out looking at it and keeping an eye on news sites.

It’s hard to say for sure, but I think it was the first time I became aware of the World Trade Center. This was 2001. I’d only left the country a couple of times, and never been to the US. In an age before we were so connected the world wasn’t so small.

It didn’t matter because the enormity of it soon became clear, and the horror was plain to see. I remember being very upset that evening.