“We are aware of an issue which is impacting one of our third-party suppliers currently,” the bank said in a statement this morning.

”This is affecting a number of services including our mobile app and 365 Online. We will provide an update as soon as possible and we apologise for any inconvenience.”

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The issue is understood to be related to a scheduled maintenance update that one of its tech infrastructure providers, the cloud company F5, underwent today.

It’s the third time in six months that the bank’s IT systems have gone down, following an outage in October and another one in May.

In April last year, the bank experienced a significant outage, while it has been previously fined by the Central Bank for technical shortcomings related to

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