Across Ireland, cash withdrawals fell in 2025, but Donegal was an exception, with withdrawal values remaining steady.
A new report by the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland indicates that mobile contactless payments are now overtaking cards for many users.
Last year, €30 billion was spent via contactless payments, with the average person making 298 transactions.
More than half of these were on a mobile device.
Nationwide, ATM withdrawals dropped by 7%, but Gillian Byrne, Head of Payments at BPFI, says cash is still very much in use:
