Siro’s plan to transform Irish broadband internet speeds has excited one industry veteran — Vodafone’s Liam O’Brien — like nothing else previously, writes Pádraig Hoare.

Large swathes of Cork’s northside will be among the chosen areas to see the fastest broadband in the country before the end of the year.

Broadband provider SIRO is to invest €40m in the rollout of high-speed broadband to six more towns in the coming months.

Work has begun to deliver the country’s fastest-ever broadband to a Co Cork town in a reversal of the digital divide between Dublin and regional towns.