By the Integrated Business Systems engineering team · Last updated 27 October 2026
Ireland, and Dublin in particular, is a common EMEA base for US companies. Offices here often grow from a handful of people to a regional hub quickly, so IT has to scale from the start.
Assume the Irish office will grow. Choose a device build and onboarding process that works for five hires a month, not one, and plan the network so the next floor or building is a project, not a rebuild.
Use our general new European office checklist.
Ireland applies the GDPR alongside its Data Protection Act 2018, supervised by the Data Protection Commission (DPC). Where a company's main EU establishment is in Ireland, the DPC can act as its lead supervisory authority across the EU. NIS2 extends cybersecurity duties to more organisations, and Ireland is bringing it into national law.
Irish employees have GDPR rights over their own data, including access requests. Make sure your IT tools let you find and export an individual's data when asked.
English is the working language, so the main challenge is coverage: Dublin is five hours ahead of the US East Coast and eight ahead of the West Coast.
If the Irish office is your EMEA hub, choose support that can also cover the smaller European offices it will soon oversee. See how we support Dublin offices.
It can be your lead authority if your main EU establishment is in Ireland. Your legal advisers can confirm how this applies to you.
With planning, accounts, devices and network can be ready for the first day. Plan a few weeks ahead for hardware and installation.
Not usually at first. Many companies start with a managed provider and add an internal IT role once the office is large enough.
Many US companies run their European operations from Dublin. We run IT for those offices: helpdesk, Microsoft 365 security, networks and backups, under the same SLA as your US sites. We watch your systems day and night and send a vetted Dublin engineer when something needs a physical fix.
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