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Computer screen displaying a Cloudflare Error while attempting to access a webpage, during an outage of the Cloudflare service, Lafayette, California, November 18, 2025. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

What keeps Irish businesses online during outages?

Many of us had never heard of Cloudfare before yesterday. But after the US online services provider experienced a major outage thousands of users globally were impacted, and Cloudflare became somewhat of a household name.

Business • 20 Nov

The Bank of Ireland boss said the bank knows it needs to do better in future

Bank of Ireland CEO apologises for technology outage

The chief executive of Bank of Ireland has apologised for a technology outage earlier week that led to significant disruption for customers and chaotic queues at some ATMs.

Business • 18 Aug 23

The outage caused the Bank of England to delay one of its regular purchases of British government bonds under quantitative easing

Bank of England takes action against Euroclear

The Bank of England said today it had started supervisory action against Euroclear UK and Ireland over an outage last September of its CREST financial markets settlement system.

Business • 25 Jun 21

The issue began this morning and continued until the middle of the day

Facebook outage leaves users frustrated

Facebook says full service has been restored to all its users following a technical issue that kept some off the social network earlier today.

Technology • 23 Aug 17

Delta operates 5,000 departures a day and is a member of the SkyTeam alliance alongside airlines including Air France-KLM

Delta flights resume after 'major' network outage

Delta Air Lines flights gradually resumed this afternoon after an outage hit its computer systems, grounding planes and stranding passengers at airports around the globe.

Business • 08 Aug 16

Microsoft's Azure platform competes with other services from Amazon and Google

Microsoft's cloud service suffers outage

A fault in Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform has knocked some customer sites offline, with issues being felt globally according to the software's status page.

Business • 19 Nov 14

Facebook outage reported in several countries this morning

'Something went wrong' on Facebook site

The Facebook website was down for a short time this morning, displaying a message saying "Sorry, something went wrong."

Business • 19 Jun 14

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