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Starlink in Ireland

3 publicly reported Starlink problems in Ireland since 2022: outages, prices, disputes and court cases, each linked to its source.

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Elon Musk and Ireland

2 entries in the Musk tracker

Documented statements and actions by Elon Musk and his companies concerning Ireland's politics, government, courts or regulators, with the official response.

Threats

Media Matters sues X to halt its suits in Ireland and Singapore, says litigation forced layoffs

Media Matters sued X in San Francisco, calling X's suits in Texas, Ireland (filed December 2023) and Singapore (July 2024) a vendetta-driven campaign of libel tourism and arguing X's own terms required cases to be filed in San Francisco. Twitter UK had also…

Response: X had since amended its terms of service to require disputes to be filed in the Northern District of Texas. Media Matters left X in January 2026, objecting to new terms it said attempted to apply ret…

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Attacks on officialsPost

Musk says Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar 'hates the Irish people' after Dublin riots

Responding to a user who said the Irish government wanted all of your freedoms, Musk wrote that Taoiseach Leo Varadkar hates the Irish people. In a second post he wrote that the Irish government 'clearly cares more about praise from woke media than their…

Response: Varadkar said existing incitement-to-hatred legislation was not up to date for the social-media age and that platforms and individuals posting hateful content both bear responsibility (Business Ins…

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Courts and regulators

DateMatterTypeStatus
10 Dec 2025ASA Bans UK Starlink Satellite Broadband Ad for Misleading PricingRegulatorReported
3 May 2025Congo grants licence to Starlink, reversing earlier banRegulatorReported

All reports for Ireland