Marking your card - don't put all your holiday cash into one basket.

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(From Irish Independent)

IRISH holiday-makers who have been left without cash in France in recent weeks will have learned that putting your eggs in one basket can be a false economy.

The series of nationwide strikes in the French civil service struck parts of the French banking system for a number of weeks in June.

In a number of cases, AIB and Bank of Ireland customers accustomed to using theirBanklink and Pass cards to extract euro from the ATMs of French main street banks wererefused cash.

In most cases it seems the ATMs, most of which had an English language service, could not accept the...

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