Sir, - It would be interesting to learn the criteria applied by the banks when placing cash dispensers. Logic would suggest the two main considerations would be the number of customers likely to come within button pressing distance, and the proximity of other machines.
A local small town has a machine in a garage, tucked round the side of the building, next to the toilets. The fingerpost on the footpath is in the middle of a group of large garage signs, making it virtually invisible to passersby. The same bank has another machine half a mile away at the town's branch.
At a rough guess, more bank customers visit the Rosslare Ferry terminal than a garage toilet. Yet puntless punters are directed to the nearest machine - in Wexford city centre - a round trip of nearly 30 miles.
Surely the ferry companies could afford a small space in their huge terminal? They must be making enough cash themselves, considering that at this time of year they are charging nearly twice as much for a return trip of three and a half hours as Swansea Cork Ferries charge for a 10 hour journey. - Yours, etc.,
Inch, Dunmanway, Co Cork.