Moving money from English to Irish bank

Nobrow

Im coming home for Christmas tomorrow, and while I am there I want to get some money from my English account into my Irish one.

Whats the best value way to do this? Bring sterling with me and lodge it? Lodge a sterling cheque? Withdraw money in Ireland using my English debit card and lodge that? International bank transfer? Other?

Thanks.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

Hey there, i'm doing the same at the moment. I transferred £400 from my Barclays to my Ulster bank account and it cost £20, plus the exchange rate was at the interbank rate, so quite good. Takes a few days though.

To be honest, that might be the handiest thing.

Also you can use your UK card just about everywhere in Ireland.

The Money Shop which is on most high streets in the UK seems to have a good rate.

Enjoy your Christmas!

Nobrow

Wow. Now I dont consider that to be good value. When I moved over here I transferred nearly £2000 from Ireland and it only cost E0.50 ...

I havent looked into it but Im pretty sure my debit card costs me something like £1.20 every time I use it abroad so I want to avoid that. Perhaps just making one big withdrawal on it when Im home is best, but then theres probably a really low limit on it.

Anyone know whether there are fees at one end or both for lodging a foreign cheque?

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

true, i don't consider that to be good value either. Would really welcome alternatives to the option.

thefox84

think you will find writing yourself a cheque the cheapest way to do this

gary the great

probably going through xetrade.com would be the easiest if you transferring a large amount