40year wait for cashback

A TRIUMPHANT Dunmore pensioner has won her battle with her bank to honour a lodgement in an account belonging to her late husband made over 40 years ago.
Teresa Scahill, who will be 90 this year, has spent the past two years trying to access the money after finding the receipt when going through old documents at her home in Castle Street.
Frustrated with the lack of action from bank officials, she staged a series of protests outside the Ulster Bank in Tuam earlier this month in a bid to force it to honour the £1,000 deposit made by her husband John, who passed away in 1990.

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