Irish users will have to wait for iPhone

GADGET fanatics waiting to get their hands on Apple’s new iPhone mobile telephone are going to have to wait just that little bit longer in Ireland.

Yesterday Apple announced the phone would be available in Britain and the North from November 9 at a price of €387 per handset — but only on Britain’s O2 network.

Apple yesterday was unable to say when the much-awaited gadget will be available to subscribers in the Republic and through which of the country’s four mobile phone firms it would be available.