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Monday 2 October 2023 Dublin: 13°C

# Outage

Last week
24th September 2023 - 30th September 2023
# Outage
Over 1,000 homes and businesses still without power after Storm Agnes
There are currently no weather warnings in place, but showers are expected this afternoon.
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Last year
2022
# interruption
Major supply issues causing water outages across Wicklow
Irish Water said homes and businesses may have been impacted following an interruption at Vartry Water Treatment Plant.
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Mar 24th 2022, 8:22 PM
All time
# Power cuts
ESB warn some customers to be left without electricity overnight as 38,000 remain without power
Most parts of the country are experiencing strong and gusty winds.
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Dec 7th 2021, 9:03 PM
# Power trip
Two big power stations disconnected from the national grid on Monday night in rare 'one-off' event
The national grid operator said two power stations tripping almost simultaneously is a rare, “one-off” event.
The 'tripping' of the two stations resulted in the loss of 820 megawatts of power to the grid.
This was the equivalent of 20% of the total national demand for electricity at that time.
A spokesperson for EirGrid said the incident was unrelated to ongoing issues around security of electricity supply.
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Nov 24th 2021, 4:12 PM
# Social Media
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage caused by error during maintenance work, company says
The social networks and messaging service went offline for more than five hours on Monday.
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Oct 6th 2021, 2:34 PM
# Explainer
Explainer: Why did Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp go down yesterday?
The platforms were down for around six hours yesterday.
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Oct 5th 2021, 12:33 PM
# restored
‘Faulty configuration change’ to blame for outage, Facebook says
The platform said it was still working to understand more about the outage.
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Oct 5th 2021, 6:41 AM
# Social Media
WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook down with users complaining of outages
Facebook and its subsidiaries have tweeted statements confirming the outage.
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Oct 4th 2021, 10:47 PM
# Off and Back On
Explainer: Some of the world's best known websites went down today - why?
The Irish Times, Amazon, Gov.UK and other major sites weren’t available earlier today – here’s what happened.
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Jun 8th 2021, 4:46 PM
# Outage
Vodafone Ireland 'in process of restoring service' after data service issues
Many customers were worried they will not be able to watch the Late Late Toy Show, which has just started.
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Nov 27th 2020, 9:34 PM
# hello can you hear me
Three network users in several counties report outage
Users reported problems after 3pm today.
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Sep 27th 2020, 5:00 PM
# Outage
If your WhatsApp and Facebook aren't working, you're not alone
An outage affecting images and other files has been felt since about 1pm.
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Jul 3rd 2019, 10:39 PM
# Outage
Vodafone resolves issue after network went down for customers around the country
Vodafone mobile data and broadband services were affected by the outage this afternoon.
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Jun 13th 2019, 6:31 PM
# Down
Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram back after massive two-hour outage
No, it wasn’t just you.
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Apr 14th 2019, 3:07 PM
# no calls go
Mobile coverage on Eir back to normal after daytime outage
Customers had taken to social media to complain about the length of eir’s outage today.
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Sep 12th 2018, 8:18 PM
# Outage
Customers complain over widespread Vodafone broadband outage
Vodafone has confirmed that there was an issue with the provider’s fixed broadband this morning.
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Jul 1st 2018, 2:07 PM
# no signal
Tesco Mobile says network is back for 'majority of customers'
But it warned that a “small number of customers” might still be blocked from using calls, texts and internet services.
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Nov 28th 2017, 10:50 PM
# Outage
Power down in parts of Dublin city centre
ESB Networks says it is working on the fault.
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Mar 7th 2017, 12:56 PM
# Sorry
Virgin apologises to mobile customers who experienced hours-long outage
The company said the issue with calls and texts was due to a fault occurring on a third party network.
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Jul 1st 2016, 1:15 PM
# Let there be light
Electricity restored to Dublin households affected by ESB power cut
The outage was caused by a fire at one of the network’s sub-stations.
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Sep 12th 2015, 10:17 AM
# Meltdown
Eircom says services are now stable after nationwide outage
The company said the problem impacted 5% of its daily call volume.
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Sep 2nd 2015, 5:30 PM
# facebook down
Lizard Squad claim they hacked Facebook. NOT true, says the website
Facebook and Instagram were down for about 40 minutes this morning.
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Jan 27th 2015, 10:25 AM
# Breakdown
It's not just you - there were problems with Gmail everywhere this morning
DON’T. PANIC.
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Oct 22nd 2014, 10:24 AM
# we're hiring
15 things every developer working in Ireland will understand
*searches Stack Overflow for the answer*
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Jul 21st 2014, 3:18 PM
# Stormwatch
12,000 people without Eircom service as bad weather fall-out continues
Meanwhile service has been restored to thousands of ESB customers who had their power cut after last night’s bad weather.
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Jan 3rd 2014, 5:09 PM
# Outage
New York Times website down in 'malicious' attack
The New York Times said it is working to fix the problem which it said was down to an external attack.
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Aug 27th 2013, 10:35 PM
# turn on the light
In Pictures: Ten year anniversary of north America’s electricity blackout
Ten years ago today, an electricity power outage caused chaos in the northern American states and Canada.
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Aug 14th 2013, 9:30 PM
# Bad timing
And it’s back (mostly): Three mobile phone network back up after outage
Customers are now able to make calls and texts following an outage – but internet services are still intermittent.
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Jun 24th 2013, 1:55 PM
# Banking
Visa Debit cards and ATMs 'back working' after lunchtime outage
Customers at both Permanent TSB and AIB have reported problems.
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May 10th 2013, 3:09 PM
# failwhale
Twitter explains why the site went down yesterday
Twitter suffered its second outage in five weeks yesterday, with users unable to access the site for a couple of hours. Did it affect you?
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Jul 27th 2012, 1:54 PM
# Twitter
Hackers claim credit for Twitter outage
The UGNazi group claims to have brought the site down for about 40 minutes this evening.
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Jun 21st 2012, 9:47 PM
# Outage
Vehicle takes out Eircom services in Swords
Broadband and telephone services have been knocked out in the Swords area today following a road traffic accident. Eircom are on site trying to resolve the problem.
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Aug 18th 2011, 3:09 PM
# Amazon
Amazon cloud computing outage hits Reddit, FourSquare, Quora
Sites struck by outage at Amazon server based in North Virigina.
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Apr 21st 2011, 3:33 PM
# Gmail
Google promises to restore lost Gmail data today
Google says 40,000 users – or 0.02 per cent – of its users found their accounts empty after a bug-ridden update.
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Mar 1st 2011, 9:44 AM