⚠️ Storm Éowyn - Fri 24.01.25 (**Please read Mod Instruction in OP.**)

Yeah you're not going to get the same response from the broadband infrastructure companies as you would from ESB. Unfortunately broadband is still seen as a luxury from a services point of view despite the fact that so many people and businesses rely on it for critical things. Not storm related but I live on a rural road and a tree brought down some eir fibre cabling a year ago and it still hasn't been repaired. Luckily upstream from me so it hasn't affected my connection. Unbelievably they had a contractor out last summer to replace any old or damaged poles and they did a few on our road but they didn't replace the damaged cable. I assume because it's not in the contractors remit but I'm sure they reported it. I reported it myself twice too, even though I'm unaffected it's just better to have a loose damaged cable like that sorted out but there's been no response. So we have new poles installed down the length of the road and no cable attached to them. Laughable stuff really.

5 weeks now.

In fairness to Eir they have called and offered a complimentary 4G wifi box but it's no point for me as there is no mobile signal at my house.

Been using the Starlink that has been working really well.

You're missing nothing! Just Trump nonsense 😉

Warning, I have fibre.

I m refusing to give Musk any more money though by getting star link

Honestly,as mad as it is, I'll move first

Only thing with FTTH is that the fibres are at least new wiring - some of the phone lines at this stage are probably 50+ years old and I doubt they've been actively maintaining them if they were planning to remove them anyway.

you should head west to Connaught. I’d say there are hundreds of kilometres of phone lines down and across roads and not a sign of anyone coming out to clean up the mess .
how this hasn’t made it to the Dail I don’t know .

Same in mayo. Elderly neighbour from the homeplace with a emergency pendant no phone since the storm and it was only just back after the last storm.

Eir are blaming NBI lines and workmanship.

In our area over the last week there's been Esb crews, NBI crews, eir crews and some local Internet providers working, tidying up trees, lines, broken and half fallen poles. It seems they're just getting around the real tidy-up now after all connections are up and running.

What an incredibly sucky position to be in and for so long. I don’t envy you (and others) at all!

Needs more context / details - how much of the delay is due to ESB networks and how much is due to repairs needed to the "severe damage to his business and home".

Yeah I read that this morning. We certainly dodged a bullet on the tides. People are still talking about the storm here and there are still signs of it everywhere. Eir are slow to fix their broken poles. They just did patch jobs.

I was in Clifden for the weekend also. Traveling through Connemara it makes you sense the isolation of the people who live there and gives a sense of the obvious difficulty faced by the service providers in maintaining, yet alone fixing after a huge storm event. Being situated rurally myself it's obviously an enormous task to try to get everything back on par. While we were relaxing and enjoying our break though, every day we were there we met Electrical and phone vans on the road, obviously working through the weekend on matters necessary to upkeep and repair the networks.

Anecdotal I know but a couple of people told me that ESB poles on the road outside their houses have been replaced a lot more often than Eir poles. One neighbour said that he has seen the ESB poles outside his house replaced 3 times since he moved into his house (30 odd years) but he had never seen the Eir poles replaced once. Many are red rotten.

Eir probably have some excuse like the poles belong to Telecom Eireann.