Kildare ranked no.1 for digital usage
Eir Digital Ireland Report
KILDARE was ranked the highest user of fibre connections in the country in 2024.
Eir published its first Digital Ireland Report, including new county level insights that show Kildare is experiencing significant growth in digital connectivity and data usage, driven by rising demand for high speed broadband, increased mobile data consumption, and sustained investment in next generation networks.
The 2026 report tracks Ireland’s progress through the first half of the Digital Decade (2019–2025) and highlights how people, businesses and communities in Kildare are embracing digital services at scale.
Homes in Kildare with high speed fibre connections used an average of 7800GB in 2024 – the most of all 26 counties - compared with 7300GB in 2023 and 6700GB in 2022. Mobile users in Kildare consumed 16.48GB per customer per month in 2025. Nationally, households with fibre connections now use 60 per cent more data on average than they did at the beginning of the decade.
Overall traffic on Eir’s broadband network has more than doubled since 2019, driven by the rollout of 1GB fibre and explosive growth in data-hungry apps and services. Average household usage on high-speed fibre has risen by 61 per cent in five years, from the equivalent of 6.2 hours to almost 10 hours of HD video per day, while data carried on eir’s mobile network has grown seven-fold over the same period.
Oliver Loomes, Eir CEO, said: “The findings of our Digital Ireland Report show that, thanks to sustained investment and collaboration, Ireland has undergone a remarkable transformation in digital infrastructure and usage."
