Internet service restored to Eir customers following backlash to outage yesterday

Broadband provider Eir have stated that their service is back up and running following an outage that lasted throughout yesterday afternoon and into this morning.

Large numbers of customers were affected by the service problem that impacted on mobile and broadband usage, with the company saying a 'significant percentage' of people were left without internet access.

Eir stated this morning that they have restored service, explaining that the outage came as a result of a problem with an Eir DNS server on Saturday afternoon.

"Service has been restored to those eir customers that were impacted by the internet access outage," read the statement.

"We apologise again to our customers for the inconvenience this has caused.

"The outage was caused by a problem with an Eir DNS server that arose at approximately 14.30 on Saturday afternoon. Full service was restored around twelve hours later."

The outage led to a considerable backlash yesterday, with many people criticising the company's response to the issue.

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