Hi I'll be moving to Dublin form Belfast soon and will want to open a bank account there. Is it true that you have to reside in the area of the branch you wish to open an account? So for example if I wanted to open an AIB current account in the city centre for convenience I couldn't unless I lived in the city centre?
"AIB has online international transfers and their online banking seems to be the best of all the banks" - I'd shop around on that one if I were you. As an ex-AIB and a current NIB and BOI customer, I have to say that they are both better than the AIB one - especially the NIB one with their Share Dealing which is excellent. Even UB is catching up....
Although the service is on the whole quite good they can be quite intransigent sometimes. You can't transfer more than 5 grand a day or up that limit for example.