SIRO, Ireland’s leading 100% fibre broadband network operator, has announced that its network is now live in Mitchelstown and Kanturk in County Cork. With SIRO’s network now available in both towns, residents and businesses can now access gigabit-speed connectivity, empowering homes, supporting businesses, and enabling a digital future.
In Kanturk, a total of 1,019 premises have now been passed and are ready to connect, including 610 premises passed in April. With only 190 premises remaining, the rollout is nearly complete. Local areas where SIRO fibre is now available include Doctor Pat O'Callaghan Park, Millbrook, Aisling Gheal, Percival Street, Bluepool Upper, Watergate Street, and Church Street.
Meanwhile in Mitchelstown, 384 premises are now passed, with a further 1,111 premises to be connected by June, extending access to even more homes and businesses. This expansion will bring transformative broadband speeds, supporting remote working, online education, digital services, and future economic growth.
This new deployment builds on SIRO’s ongoing investment in County Cork. This latest deployment follows SIRO’s recent expansion in Cobh, with 1,053 premises passed. With both Mitchelstown and Kanturk now benefiting from SIRO’s fibre broadband, more communities across the region are gaining access to the high-speed connectivity needed to support modern living and business growth.
The expansion into Kanturk and Mitchelstown is part of SIRO’s mission to bring future-proof broadband infrastructure to towns across Ireland. In County Cork alone, SIRO has passed over 88, 000 premises, enabling connectivity in towns including Ballincollig, Bandon, Carrigaline, Carrigtwohill, Fermoy, Little Island, Mallow, Midleton, Skibbereen, Youghal, Crosshaven, Cobh and Kinsale.
To date, SIRO’s national network has reached more than 650,000 premises across 142 towns and cities, as part of its €1 billion investment. The company is on track to pass over 700,000 premises by 2026, helping to future-proof communities all across Ireland.
SIRO Chief Executive Officer,
John Keaney commented:
"Today, reliable, high-speed broadband is the foundation of how we live, work, and do business. Our investment in towns like Mitchelstown and Kanturk reflects our commitment to ensuring that all communities – not just major cities – have access to the world-class connectivity they need to succeed and grow in a digital-first future."
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The research comes as data by the telecommunications regulator, Comreg, indicates that only 12% of Irish businesses have an active fibre-to-the-premise connection (“full fibre”) with tens of thousands of these businesses continuing to rely on outdated and slow copper connections. This is despite Comreg data indicating that 79% of premises now have access to full fibre broadband.
Copper switch off, the process by which the outdated copper broadband network will be permanently turned off and decommissioned, is expected to commence over the coming years making it more urgent that businesses, particularly SMEs, still reliant on this outdated technology are now encouraged to move to faster and more reliable full fibre broadband.
In response, SIRO’s has launched a new bespoke product into the Irish market, LightPulse, a Gigabit fibre broadband product, tailored to meet the needs of Irish SMEs and designed to support these businesses in making the transition to full fibre.
Commenting on the findings, SIRO’s Head of Enterprise, Aoife O’Reilly said:
Thursday 14th August 2025; Pictured are Ronan Whelan, SIRO Chief Commercial Officer and Marianne Murphy, Head of Marketing as SIRO is announcing the launch of a new online service allowing buyers to have access to a fibre broadband service at their new home from the day they move in.[/caption]
SIRO’s new service for home buyers offers a range of options depending on each individual’s circumstances. For those who have already moved in they can go ahead and order broadband services today; those who have bought, have an Eircode or just the address and a move-in date they can pre-order to ensure their broadband is ready when they are; or for those who have just bought, have an address but no move-in date yet can register and receive a reminder from SIRO when the broadband pre-order service is available to them.
For estate agents and developers, they also now have a dedicated information source that they can direct their home buyers to if the latter have queries on services available to them.
Research previously commissioned by SIRO revealed the extent to which broadband is now viewed as an indispensable part of modern living, surpassing other features once regarded as core to a new home. It found that access to broadband was a key consideration for home buyers, ranking higher than even a parking spot or garden for respondents.
A first in the Irish broadband market, SIRO’s website now hosts a comprehensive list of new developments across Ireland in which SIRO is rolling out its network. SIRO’s new developments webpage currently lists over 300 new developments in every corner of Ireland, with more new developments added on a weekly basis.
SIRO is a wholesale fibre broadband operator. It partners with more than twenty broadband retailers such as Digiweb, Pure Telcom, Sky, Virgin Media and Vodafone amongst others from which home buyers can order a broadband service from. It has grown to become the second largest full fibre broadband network in Ireland and continues to grow.
Commenting on its new dedicated service, SIRO Chief Commercial Officer Ronan Whelan said:
Main Street, Claremorris, County Mayo, Ireland.[/caption]
SIRO’s national network has reached more than 660,000 premises across 143 towns and cities, as part of its €1 billion investment. The company is on track to pass over 700,000 premises by 2026, helping to future-proof connectivity in communities right across Ireland.
SIRO’s full fibre broadband network will provide residents and businesses in Claremorris with fast and future proofed connectivity, enabling everything from seamless remote working or video streaming to supporting local enterprises in their digital growth. SIRO’s full fibre network currently provides speeds of up to 2 Gigabits per second for homes and 10 Gigabits per second for businesses.
The expansion comes at a crucial time, as Ireland moves closer to switching off the existing outdated copper telecoms network. SIRO’s 100% fibre broadband provides a future-proof solution, ensuring reliable connectivity for households and businesses as traditional copper-based services are phased out.
Speaking on the announcement, John Keaney, SIRO Chief Executive Officer, said:
Wholesale fibre optic broadband operator SIRO hosted an industry event this week, bringing Irish and international experts together to discuss and debate how Ireland can best approach copper switch off in the years ahead.
International telecoms expert, Benoit Felten, Partner at Plum Consulting, noted:
The announcement was made at a 10th anniversary celebration event held by the company at Dublin’s Merrion Hotel and attended by Minister for Arts, Culture, Communications, Media and Sport Patrick O’Donovan T.D.
SIRO confirmed at the event that, when it completes its build programme in Carrigtwohill in the coming weeks, all homes and businesses within the town will have access to fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband. This will make Carrigtwohill the first Irish town in which all premises can access full fibre broadband.
Carrigtwohill is a growing town, just 12 kilometres from Cork City, whose population has more than trebled to over 5,500 since 2002. Its population is predicted to reach up to 10,000 by 2030, with a sizeable number of new housing developments underway or planned.
SIRO’s fibre to the home network will reach over 2,300 premises in the town and the company is also on track for its network to reach the more than 1,000 new homes which are either under construction or planned for the town.
Access to fast, reliable and future proofed fibre broadband will support Carrigtwohill’s residents and businesses to live and work more sustainably such as by working remotely, availing of online education or allowing businesses to work smarter and more efficiently using digital tools and resources.
SIRO was founded as a joint venture between ESB and Vodafone in May 2015, with the objective of delivering high quality and future proofed fibre connectivity to communities and towns across Ireland. Since then, SIRO fibre broadband network has grown to become Ireland’s second largest - now available to over 650,000 premises in 143 cities and towns in every county in Ireland. SIRO continues to rollout out its network targeting over 700,000 premises by 2026.
When SIRO was founded in 2015, only 1% of premises had access to FTTH broadband. SIRO’s launch of Ireland’s first full fibre network spawned a fibre revolution, stimulating real competition in the market. Today, over 7 in 10 of all premises now can avail of FTTH broadband, making the Government’s target Gigabit broadband access for all by 2028 feasible.
At the event, many of the ‘Fibre Firsts’ achieved by SIRO over the decade were acknowledged including:
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