Walk in service - foreign banks?

Bronco Lane said:

Does anyone know or can anyone give a list of countries in the EU where I can walk in off the street with an Irish address, Irish utility bills, Irish I.D. and an Irish bank draft and open an account? I can be there in an hour or two courtesy of Ryanair?

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CiaranT said:

How about just going up to Northern Ireland?

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farmerette said:

p.s , savings are absolutley safe in irish banks now that the bailout is going ahead , thier was a slim chance they were in danger last week , thier is absolutley no chance now , the europeans moved fast as they knew an irish banking collapse would trigger a european bank collapse , thier banks are in debt to irish banks which is why they wont allow them to fail , a bigger concern should be the 100 billion mortgage that the irish people are being saddled with , banking debt was and is being made soverign debt and that debt is not only the bank debts of irish banks , it is the bank debt of european banks

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farmerette said:

im not sure , i only have a sterling account but you can open euro and dollar accounts aswell but you may have to start with a sterling account , if that is the case , dont bother looking to get it into euro as they will screw you on the exchange rate when transfering from sterling to euro

here is their number , takes a while to get to speak to anyone

thier are no direct numbers to branches , customer service only

00448457404404

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