Thrifty News Digest April 29, 2013

• Banks hike fees and interest rates by up to 86 per cent
  The days of no-strings free banking will be dead and gone in another two months. Ulster Bank will pull its free current account – the only free account left in Ireland – at the start of July. The bank will charge its customers €48 a year to use its personal current account from then.
• Pension crisis exposed as State to pay €200m
  THE State faces having to find up to €200m to compensate Waterford Crystal workers for the loss of their pension benefits.
• House price rise in capital bucks overall trend as slump continues
  THE gap between Dublin property prices and the rest of the country has widened.
• Property prices fall again but pace eases
  PROPERTY prices fell again last month, new figures out today show.
• Former Waterford Crystal workers win landmark ECJ battle over pension losses
  Up to 1,500 former employees of Waterford Crystal will benefit from a ruling today by the European Court of Justice that the Irish government must protect their pension rights.

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