Over 200 emergency calls missed due to outage in early hours

BT Communications were unable to handle emergency calls between 1-2.15am last night. Picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

Over 200 emergency calls were missed, and later followed up on, after BT Ireland suffered an outage in the early hours of this morning and were unable to handle all calls. 

The Government's Environment Climate and Communications was notified this morning that BT Communications Ireland Ltd (BTCIL) were unable to handle emergency calls between 1am and 2.15am – during which time 227 calls were made.