Ireland eSIM: connectivity priced by usage, not packages

The shape of an Ireland trip

Most Ireland trips bend toward one of two patterns. Three days in Dublin around a wedding, a conference, or a stag, with day trips to Howth or the Cliffs of Moher. Or two weeks in a hire car: Dublin out to Galway, down through the Burren, around Kerry and the Ring, back through Cork. The first pattern lives on Maps and Uber; the second lives on Maps and the lookup of every other castle ruin you pass.

Roamzy charges $0.61 per gigabyte in Ireland. That's $0.0006 per megabyte, billed in real time as your phone uses data on Irish networks. No subscription, no expiry on the unused balance, no "5 GB for 30 days" pre-buy. One per-MB rate across 193 countries isn't a slogan — it's the plain cost of usage.

How much will Roamzy actually cost on this trip?

A typical visitor uses about 1 GB per day: Maps for the rural roads west of the Shannon, the camera-translator on a Gaeilge-only road sign, your bank app to confirm a contactless tap at a Cork pub, the bus and rail apps for routes out of Dublin Heuston, the occasional video call. Call it 1 GB/day:

Competitor prices in columns 3 and 4 are 2025 ranges based on typical offerings; exact figures depend on your home carrier and the airport store you visit. Roamzy's rate in column 2 is our actual published rate from the pricing page.

An Irish airport SIM at DUB or ORK is fine on paper — until you read the small print. Show passport, sit through the activation while everyone else in your party clears arrivals, fold in a tourist tariff that's pricier than the same network sells locals. The eSIM skips that: it's attached before you taxi to the gate, the meter starts when you connect to a Dublin tower.

Where does Roamzy work in this country?

Ireland is small but rural, and the network reflects that:

• Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick — 5G in the cores, dense LTE everywhere else
• The motorway network (M1, M7, M8, M50) — continuous LTE, brief drops in deeper cuts
• The Wild Atlantic Way — solid 4G in towns, thinning on the headlands and in the bog roads inland
• Connemara, the Burren, west Kerry — patchy 4G in the valleys and along the coast roads; offline maps earn their keep
• DART and intercity rail — signal stays attached on most of the line, drops in the Phoenix Park tunnel

If you're hiking the Wicklow Way or driving the Beara Peninsula, expect dead zones. That's geography, not the operator's fault. GPS and an offline-cached map handle the gaps.

How do I install my Roamzy eSIM?

1. Sign in to Roamzy via Telegram or Google
2. Your first eSIM is free and comes with real data on us. After that, top up from $20 in stablecoins (USDT or USDC): no cards, no banks, no FX surcharges
3. The QR code appears in your dashboard as soon as the eSIM is issued
4. On the iPhone itself (iOS 17.4 or newer), tap Tap to install in the QR card; otherwise Settings → Cellular → Add eSIM → scan QR
5. The counter starts the moment you land at DUB, ORK, or SNN

Supported stablecoins, networks, and common iPhone/Android setup errors are in the FAQ.

What are Roamzy's honest limitations?

Three traps Roamzy doesn't have, because they were never built in.

• No welcome promo that bait-and-switches the second top-up. The rate on top-up #1 is the rate on top-up #20.
• No fine-print throttling. One rate, full speed — first GB and the hundredth both cost $0.0006/MB.
• No auto-renewal you forgot to cancel. Balance runs out, the eSIM stops. No background charge surfacing two months later.

In Ireland the honest rate is low enough that a bundle could only obscure it. So there isn't one: the meter runs, the balance keeps, and the price is the price.

What if my trip continues to other countries?

Ireland often pairs with a London leg or a Schengen onward flight. Same Roamzy account, the eSIM hands over at the border:

• Spain — common Ryanair onward, same $0.61/GB
• France — same EU rate, same billing model
• If you want the underlying mechanics — how roaming actually gets priced and why it hurts