Talk:Allied Irish Banks/Archives/2016

Irish translation?
I can't see any reason for including the Irish translation of the company's name. No one refers to it by that name and i doubt if it has any official or legal status. Let me know if you disagree. Stanstaple (talk) 19:05, 10 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes the Irish name is used by Irish people to describe the entity in their own Gaelic language. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.169.241.235 (talk) 12:40, 16 January 2011 (UTC)


 * That's surprising- I've never heard it used. The (to my mind, spurious) Gaelic name is most assuredly not used by the general populous or by gaelgeorí. I'm not trying to bust your balls, but are you serious? Stanstaple (talk) 21:00, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Same here; the only time I remember hearing the Irish version in spoken Irish was at school in the mid 90s. When speaking both Irish and English, myself and every other Irish speaker I know just says "AIB". I see the name has been removed from the lead; this seems fair enough, but it may be appropriate to include it in the "Name" section? Destynova (talk) 14:06, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
 * There have actually been two Irish names used for the bank - the original "Bainc-Aontas Éireann", and later the singular "Banc Aontas Éireann".
 * Not sure how frequently either name was used - but perhaps their most notable use was in Croke Park, on one of the advertising hoardings behind the presentation area in the old Hogan Stand.
 * In this YouTube video of the 1982 All-Ireland football final - where, of course, Offaly denied Kerry the five-in-a-row - the original name can be made out at around the 7:30 mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbib11JZZGc
 * And in this video of the end of the 1989 hurling final, and the acceptance speech by Tipperary's Bobby Ryan, the singular name can be seen several times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMET-2SbRKI
 * It appears that these names pretty much died out following the introduction of the current English abbreviation and logo in 1990. According to the current revision of this article, the bank has preferred to be referred to as "AIB" ever since. I gather that means in both languages - and given what Stanstaple and Destynova have said, given that just about every "Nuacht" story these days refers to it as "AIB", and also given that the word "banc" is the only bit of Irish one sees on the fronts of branches in Gaeltacht towns, I actually would believe that.
 * On the other hand, Bank of Ireland is still usually referred to in Irish as "Banc na hÉireann", while Ulster Bank is largely, though not exclusively, referred to as "Banc Uladh". Bluebird207 (talk) 16:01, 14 February 2016 (UTC)