DUBLIN ENDPOINTFree VPN for Ireland
VPNmine's Dublin server gives any VPNmine app an Irish IP address for free, over a WireGuard tunnel encrypted with ChaCha20-Poly1305. We record which server you used and when, never the sites, lookups or content. For Irish services from abroad, and the nearest EU address to Britain at 10 to 15 ms from London.
What people use it for
- Reach Irish services, broadcasters and pricing while abroad
- An English-speaking EU exit a few milliseconds from London
- Encrypt everything you send over public and hotel Wi-Fi
- Keep your browsing out of the connection records Irish providers hold
Estimated round trip
- Ireland2-15 ms
- London or Amsterdam10-25 ms
- New York70-85 ms
Estimates from route distance, not measurements. Your provider's routing decides the real figure, and our speed test measures it in about twenty seconds.
Why Dublin
Dublin is where the large American platforms put their European headquarters and a great deal of their European computing, so the city has a density of data centres and peering out of proportion to the size of the country. The national exchange INEX sits in the middle of that, and the transatlantic cables that land on the Irish coast give Dublin one of the shortest paths from Europe to the US East Coast. London is 10 to 15 ms away, Amsterdam 15 to 25, New York roughly 70 to 85.
Retention after the Dwyer case
Ireland's Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011 required providers to keep internet connection data for a year and telephony data for two, and it was challenged all the way to the Court of Justice of the EU, which ruled in 2022 that general and indiscriminate retention of that kind was unlawful. The 2022 amending Act replaced it with targeted retention and a national-security regime. Ireland's Data Protection Commission is also the lead regulator for most of the large platforms under the GDPR's one-stop-shop rule, which is why so many European privacy cases are decided in Dublin.
What this changes about your connection
With the tunnel up, your provider sees encrypted traffic to one VPNmine address in Dublin and nothing about its contents; sites see the Dublin server, which reads as Ireland and as the European Union. For anyone in Britain who needs an EU address after Brexit, Dublin is the closest one there is, and for anyone in the US it is one of the closest European exits by round trip.
Confirm it rather than assume it
Connect to Dublin, then check what changed. Our IP checker shows the address and country sites now see. The DNS leak test shows whether your domain lookups are still going to your own provider, which is the most common way a tunnel protects less than it appears to. The WebRTC leak test catches the browser handing out your real address through an API the VPN never sees.
What we store while you are connected is the same in Ireland as everywhere else: which server the session used and when, and nothing about the traffic. The full list is in the privacy policy.
Ireland VPN questions
How do I get an Irish IP address for free?
Install VPNmine on your desktop, phone, TV or browser, sign in, and choose Ireland from the server list. The app opens a WireGuard tunnel to our Dublin server, and every site you open afterwards sees that server's address instead of yours. No charge, no advertising and no card required.
Are VPNs legal in Ireland?
Yes. VPN use is lawful in Ireland and standard in business, there is no filtering regime that targets it, and Ireland applies the GDPR as an EU member state. After the 2022 court ruling, providers are no longer under a general duty to log everyone's connections.
Is Dublin a good EU exit from the UK?
The best one by distance. London to Dublin is roughly 10 to 15 ms, less than London to Amsterdam or Paris, and a Dublin address reads as inside the European Union to anything that checks. It is also English-speaking, which matters for a few services that decide language by location.
Why is Ireland so central to European privacy law?
Because most of the large American platforms have their European headquarters in Dublin, which under the GDPR's one-stop-shop rule makes the Irish Data Protection Commission their lead regulator. Complaints from anywhere in the EU about those companies end up being decided in Ireland.
Step by step: How can I get an Irish IP address?
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