{"id":406194,"date":"2026-04-19T05:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406194\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:40:09","slug":"how-to-find-irelands-best-value-current-account-in-a-very-crowded-banking-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406194\/","title":{"rendered":"How to find Ireland\u2019s best value current account in a very crowded banking market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">We compare the fees, apps and perks for all account providers with a physical location <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"89pc of Irish consumers still use one of the three big banks for their main account. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/00680733-3c54-4f81-9da4-23f999d6d532.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">89pc of Irish consumers still use one of the three big banks for their main account. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s been a seismic time for Irish banking customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Last week, Austrian bank Bawag struck a deal to buy PTSB for \u20ac1.62bn, and UK neobank Monzo entered the market with free banking. And last month AIB overhauled its current account fees, while Spanish lender Bankinter mooted plans to introduce current accounts here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We compare the fees, apps and perks for all account providers with a physical location 89pc of Irish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13395,7863,2605,6188,61,60,43,11402,8581],"class_list":{"0":"post-406194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-allied-irish-banks","9":"tag-bank-of-ireland","10":"tag-banking","11":"tag-gabrielle-monaghan","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-permanent-tsb","16":"tag-revolut"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}