Neighbour refusing SIRO wayleave — any advice?

There's not a whole lot you can do unless SIRO are willing to find another route. Unfortunately for you unless there is a significant number of properties further downstream from you that would be impacted by not rerouting the cable, they won't, as it just won't make economic sense to do so.

You might have some hope in that Virgin (presumably, since you mention coax) might upgrade their own coax network with fibre under the existing wayleaves they have in place. OpenEir will also most likely upgrade their own copper network in the coming years with fibre, again using existing access methods.

There's lots of cases of estates in Dublin served by Virgin where a certain portion of houses at the end of a run haven't any service available from them because of a property along the way refusing access.

As a last resort you could approach a microwave provider like Viatel (Digiweb), Enet, Virgin Business, etc. to see could you get a conneciton that way if connectivity really is that critical.

• Bonus: their microwave connections are symmetrical up to 1Gb.
• Drawback: Yes, that three-digit price they will quote you really is per month, not per year!
• Possible problem: You will need a microwave antenna on the roof, anything up to 60cm diameter, typically.

As @KildareP has mentioned, ask Virgin when are they upgrading the coax to FTTP in your area and check OpenEir to see when they are upgrading your area to FTTP also -

https://www.openeir.ie/fibre/broadband-checker

Are you friendly with the neighbour or just like a lot of neighbours friendly when they need something?

same boat where we are, 3 housing estates 60-70 house, Eir pole that currently used to run to loop the cables around the back gardens need to be replaced and home owner refusing to grant permission. so they Skipped on the next area of the town. Siro were also in the area but due to it being a 70s estate no ducts in place. so they also skipped over us. it is very annoying when your are stuck with 30mb when people 3 min walk way are on 1000mb.

we will be added to comreg list of Urban black spots where EIR/Siro are unable to upgrade due to Neighbors being awkward or due to costs. The state will look into solution to solving our areas but this will not happen until NBI, SIRO, EIR, Virgin have completed their roll out nation wide.

SIRO doesn’t have to deal with you directly, only the providers as they are their customer. You’d have to contact the provider or maybe start the complaint process with the provider and you could get ComReg involved after 10 days.

I don't believe that demostrates "A way leave on his property could affect any future sale of his property."

€25 in the small claims would have that fixed for you.

it wasn’t the OP I was replying to..

How so? No-one was owning up to the cable, eircom was gone but the cabnles were there, property was damaged with no way to find out who's responsible; not sure what the €25 would have bought me, a private investihgator for 15 mins????

As already mentioned, the cables were put in by Eircom, who do you call when they no longer exist?

Or maybe the neighbour has seen first hand how some installers to shoddily throw the cable in with little or no regard for the premises they're passing through.

There is an alternative but it's expensive and that is for SIRO do a cutting outside the property on the public pavement to avoid the premises.

Yep, I tried that, Eir denied all knowledge and responibility - apparently Circom was broken up not just rebranded, they weree nice but couldn't get an answer as to who should help.

In a weird twist of fate type scenario a lorry struck the low hanging calbe and brought it down, Vodafone showed up to repair/reattach, that's when it was sorted, age is one thing but the cable ripped the facia off during the storms - wouldn't have happened if it wasn't there so I would suggest that risk could affect the value.

That's simply not a factor for a large number of people though. Imagine had quite an influx in the local village despite large parts of it being FTTH-enabled for years now. Quite a few Three outdoor 5G radios have appeared blinking away on walls over the last year as well.

Vast majority of people don't know and don't care once it's cheap and works well enough and certainly aren't going to pay more for a house over another just to have fibre to the home.