{"id":960897,"date":"2026-05-15T05:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/960897\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:44:18","slug":"is-cash-still-needed-in-our-increasingly-contactless-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/960897\/","title":{"rendered":"Is cash still needed in our increasingly contactless world?"},"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\">Digital payments may dominate, but across Ireland, loyal cash users \u2013 and cash-only businesses \u2013 are proving there\u2019s life left yet in physical money\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Is cash still important in the new contactless world? Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c1bae86b-6833-4f1e-8e4b-f7b8a1547015.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)\">Is cash still important in the new contactless world? 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)\">Is cash still king? In recent years, Ireland shifted away from physical money, towards digital payment methods. At caf\u00e9s and supermarket tills, parking meters and toll booths, vending machines and church collection plates, a frictionless tap often is all it takes to part with hard-earned dough.<\/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)\">In 2025, Bank of Ireland reported that just one in every eight euros spent was cash, down from around one in three before the pandemic. As of last June, ATM withdrawals had also declined 3.6pc on the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Digital payments may dominate, but across Ireland, loyal cash users \u2013 and cash-only businesses \u2013 are proving there\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":960898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[547,28653,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-960897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-review-magazine","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116577007559132271","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}