Data for Dublin, Galway, Kerry and the whole Wild Atlantic Way, installed before you fly. Ireland is on the Europe plan, and so is the United Kingdom: the drive north to Belfast and the Giant’s Causeway stays on one eSIM. The rain comes free of charge.
The Ireland plan covers Ireland only.
The same 10 GB in a package that keeps working past Ireland.
38 other countries share the package with Ireland. A few of them:
What's included, when it starts, and how to get connected.
Film crews keep coming back to the island’s edges, and one loop by car strings their locations together: the capital, the Antrim coast, Achill and the Skelligs. The line below is an illustration, not a map.
1Normal People sent Connell and Marianne to Trinity College and filmed there with real students as extras. Wednesday moved its second season to Ireland in 2024 — Ashford Studios in Wicklow, Deansgrange Cemetery in Dublin — and was back in the city for the third in 2026. Have the first pint anywhere but Temple Bar.
2The border is easy to miss: the only sign is the switch to mph. The Dark Hedges, Game of Thrones’ King’s Road, have been closed to cars since 2017; the Giant’s Causeway is free to walk, its visitor centre is not. Unless you are Irish, British or live in Ireland, the UK expects an ETA (£20 in 2026) or a visa here too.
3The Banshees of Inisherin started filming on Inis Mór and finished here in 2021: Colm’s house stood at Keem Bay, Cloughmore played JJ Devine’s pub and Purteen Harbour the shop. Achill, the largest of Ireland’s islands, has been joined to the mainland by a bridge since 1887, so no ferry is needed.
4Skellig Michael played Luke Skywalker’s island in two Star Wars films. Rian Johnson’s crew could not shift the island’s puffins, so they turned them into porgs. Landings run from 12 May into September in 2026, with permitted boats only, from Portmagee and nearby harbours: 618 steps, no children under 12, and plenty of days called off by the sea.
How the plan fits this route
Ireland and the United Kingdom are both on the Europe plan, so one package covers the whole loop — Dublin, the Antrim coast and the Atlantic side — with nothing to switch at the border. Coverage is good in the towns and along the main roads, and thins on the headlands, on the islands and on the boat to the Skelligs, as it does for everyone.
The game: stop your first gulp where the line between stout and head crosses the middle of the G on the glass. It has been on Urban Dictionary since 2018 and on phone screens ever since. The pour you wait for — 119.5 seconds between the two parts, says Guinness — is ‘a cod’, Irish slang for nonsense, according to an Irish Times columnist: it changes nothing about the taste. Wait anyway. It is the show.
Moher tops out at 214 metres and drew about 1.1 million visitors in 2022. Sliabh Liag in Donegal climbs to 601 metres straight out of the Atlantic, and Croaghaun on Achill has the highest sea cliffs in Ireland, third-highest in Europe, visible only on foot or from a boat. See Moher, by all means. Then keep driving north.
The word for fun, news and good conversation began as the English and Scots ‘crack’, from the Middle English crak, loud talk. Irish borrowed it as craic in the mid-20th century, and English took it back, Irish spelling and all, in the 1970s. Knowing this will not make you friends at the bar. Asking ‘what’s the craic?’ will.
Joe ‘Spud’ Murphy founded Tayto in Dublin in 1954 and is credited with the world’s first flavoured crisp: cheese and onion. Two years later a company in Tandragee, County Armagh, licensed the name and the recipes, and Tayto Northern Ireland has been a separate firm ever since, making its crisps beside a castle. Taste both before you pick a favourite.
Between junctions 6 and 7, cameras photograph every number plate, and drivers without a tag or an account must pay online, by phone or at a Payzone shop before 8 p.m. the following day; after that, penalties are added. With a hire car, ask at the desk how the toll is handled. Everywhere else the one rule to remember is simpler: keep left.
Answers about data, coverage and setup for Ireland.
Yes. Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom is on the Europe plan too, so the package carries on with the same allowance. The border is open and easy to miss; close to it, the phone may hop between Irish and UK networks, and both sides are covered. The giveaway is the road signs: speed limits in km/h in the Republic, in mph in Northern Ireland.
In the Republic, usually not: roam-like-at-home applies, within your plan’s fair-use allowance. Northern Ireland is the catch. It is in the UK, outside the EU’s roaming rules, so a day on the Causeway Coast depends on your operator’s own UK terms. Visitors from outside the EU, Britain included since Brexit, pay their own operator’s rates in the Republic. One package covers both sides of the border.
Mostly. The networks listed on this page, Eir, Three and Vodafone, are all three of Ireland’s own mobile networks, and the phone connects to one of them by itself. Coverage is good in the towns and along the main roads, and thins on remote headlands, in mountain passes and on the smaller islands, as it does for everyone. On a 2,500 km coast road, download offline maps before each long drive.
