With the huge advances in digital print technology over the last number of years,i'm surprised it took this long.

You don't need plates to duplicate notes any longer

Why do we have to suffer these local notes AT ALL

Are the plastic ones not harder to counterfeit? The fivers were supposedly introduced as a test marketing scheme of some sort - no results after all these years?

beano

The polymer notes are still good - they were the only note that wasn't recalled by Northern.

Wonder who's behind those?

Sorry Gonzo, I meant if these new notes have been forged so easily, could they not have replaced them with plastic notes, since one of the benefits of these was that they'd supposedly be harder to forge. Has this not proven to be the case?

Good question.

Now if this were a Sinn Féin member rather than Uncle (Aunty?) Tom Dolores Kelly of the sdlp, all hell would break loose and the SF member would probably be charged with using counterfeit money. But hold on, could the stoopies be involved in the Northern Bank robbery????

"Wonder who's behind those?"

Well, it must be non-republicans- because this topic only has about 8 responses:-)No speculation on this one.
But wait, it is early days yet, surely some of our fine commentators will find some way to link republicans to this!

According to the PSNI yesterday, the polymer 5s are the only one of any of the NI notes that haven't been forged.

"Wonder who's behind those?"

Probably some 15 year old with his new pc and printer