Internet outage history
Ireland
Operational 20/20 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC
Every disruption Blackout Map has recorded in Ireland since monitoring began on October 16, 2026, with reported government shutdowns and submarine cable incidents.
Overview
Last 90 days
Worst status per day, last 90 daysDaily reachability
last 30 daysOur probes · hosts reachable
last 72 hoursIODA · routes and active probing, % of normal
last 72 hoursLatency from our server (Germany)
last 72 hoursThe same measurements as the live panel, per 30 minutes. Times in UTC.
Incidents
All incidents
our probes and IODANo disruptions recorded in Ireland since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.
Attacks and context
Context only — they don't change the status above.
DDoS attacks aimed at Ireland · 7 days
Per hour; each line is relative to its own busiest hour of the week (100%). Context only — attacks never change a country's status.
- Types
- UDP Flood 64% · Mirai (UDP) Flood 23% · SYN Flood 6% · Mirai (TCP) Flood 2%
- Duration
- 65% longer than 1 h · 26% under 20 min
- Size
- 98% under 500 Mbit/s · 0% over 10 Gbit/s
- Web attacks from
- Amazon.com 43% · Eircom Limited 16% · Vodafone Ireland Limited 8%
Long-term history
Before our monitoring: IODA archive
15 incidents · 5 blackouts · 7 partial outagesOutages in Ireland detected by IODA (Georgia Tech) between January 2022 and the start of our own monitoring: drops in the country's internet routes (BGP) or in its reachability from IODA's active probing, compared with the day before. Each is checked against IODA's signal; small dips are left out.
| Started (UTC) | Duration | Worst level | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 22:20 | 1 hour | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 5% of normal |
| Jun 20, 2026 11:40 | 2 hours | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 24% of normal |
| May 3, 2026 20:50 | 50 min | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 37% of normal |
| Apr 8, 2026 07:10 | 12 hours | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 72% of normal |
| Aug 10, 2025 07:30 | 30 min | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 84% of normal |
| Apr 30, 2025 16:30 | 50 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 66% of normal |
| Mar 29, 2025 10:10 | 3 hours | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 30% of normal |
| Mar 25, 2025 20:10 | 5 hours | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 80% of normal |
| Mar 25, 2025 17:30 | 40 min | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 92% of normal |
| Jul 6, 2024 11:00 | 30 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 70% of normal |
| Mar 25, 2024 22:40 | 2 days | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 67% of normal |
| Nov 19, 2023 12:40 | 2 hours | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 18% of normal |
Show all 15
| Started (UTC) | Duration | Worst level | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 2023 23:40 | 1 hour | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 75% of normal |
| Nov 8, 2022 06:50 | 30 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 75% of normal |
| Jul 2, 2022 05:10 | 30 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 56% of normal |
Government shutdowns and blocks
since 2019The Internet Society Pulse tracker has no recorded government shutdowns or blocks in Ireland since 2019.
Provided by Internet Society.
Submarine cable incidents
- Mar 28, 2026 Sirius South
- Mar 15, 2026 2Africa
- Mar 10, 2026 2Africa
Cable incidents: GeoCables (CC BY 4.0). Context only — they never change a country's status.