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Kerry Blackspots

You’re gonna need more SIMs Deputy Michael Cahill has been asking questions in the Dáil about Kerry mobile coverage; quite a few. Since May 2025 he has asked at least 30. As he’s often quite specific about the roads and areas so we’ve put them on a map. The answers he gets are standard Departmental stuff; a disclaimer, a fragrant history of the last spectrum auction, and some helpful-unhelpful advice about escalation. Occasionally it’s a little combative. Last year on the 25th of January the Department contradicted deputy Cahill’s account of poor coverage in Dromod because ComReg’s model said otherwise,...

Loughglinn premises on its own.

The envy of the village ComReg’s latest batch of area broadband statistics has just been published, and among the “Small Areas” tier is Loughglinn, where there exists one house – in a village full of obsolete copper – that has managed to secure fibre-to-the-home under the NBP. Meanwhile the rest of the village remains in limbo and will have to make do.