Electrical Regs in Ireland (Dublin)

Thank you all for your replies -


I suspect the following post is going to be a bit of a rambling post flitting from thought to thought in no particular order....


I spent all of Thursday getting here to Dublin.

What an adventure. By Road to Fishguard and Ferry to Rosslair. Up the coast to Dublin. There seems to be no  Traffic here! (I know I've only seen a small part of Ireland but Rosslair to Dublin was a pleasure to travel with no traffic in evidence. 


I am extending cabling in three compartment trunking (Marshall Tufflex too so I even have stock for that). I am using 2.5mm singles for all cores so should be OK. (Mine are standard, stranded singles) The Irish seem to use the same sort of cable as the Germans do, a toughened solid core flex, all cores the same size. 

The 3 phase commercial DBs here in Dublin are fairly similar in layout to German ones - being really wide and having stacks of MCBs on the left and right hand side of the board - with relays in evidence for the emergency lighting. (Bearing in mind that I have seen only one German and only one Irish 3 phase DB so this may not be indicative of every DB in either country) These were both in office environments in commercial office blocks. 

All of the power seems to be on  double pole RCDs the size of two regular MCBs put together. Like a single phase RCD main switch in the UK. 

All lights seem to be on MCBs. (In Dublin not evidently on RCDs but in Germany they certainly were on RCDS)

There is a 100Amp MCCB at the DB origin here in Ireland something simmilar in Germany. 

None of these boards look like a UK DB - in layout- and the German DB that I saw really liked to use multiple layers of split load board with an RCD main switch and say 10 ways of MCBs after that. stacks of them for a very small space. 

The light switches and sockets in Ireland are the same as for England. 

German Light switches and sockets are a whole different storey and a complete pain in the *** to me as I felt like a day 1 apprentice trying to fit them in............


This one particular - rather smart commercial office building in the centre of Dublin - has a shocking mess of cabling, which I doubt is indicative of Irish cabling practices but this whole building is such an electrical mess it is unbelievable. 


Kind Regards

Thank you all for your replies -


I suspect the following post is going to be a bit of a rambling post flitting from thought to thought in no particular order....


I spent all of Thursday getting here to Dublin.

What an adventure. By Road to Fishguard and Ferry to Rosslair. Up the coast to Dublin. There seems to be no  Traffic here! (I know I've only seen a small part of Ireland but Rosslair to Dublin was a pleasure to travel with no traffic in evidence. 


I am extending cabling in three compartment trunking (Marshall Tufflex too so I even have stock for that). I am using 2.5mm singles for all cores so should be OK. (Mine are standard, stranded singles) The Irish seem to use the same sort of cable as the Germans do, a toughened solid core flex, all cores the same size. 

The 3 phase commercial DBs here in Dublin are fairly similar in layout to German ones - being really wide and having stacks of MCBs on the left and right hand side of the board - with relays in evidence for the emergency lighting. (Bearing in mind that I have seen only one German and only one Irish 3 phase DB so this may not be indicative of every DB in either country) These were both in office environments in commercial office blocks. 

All of the power seems to be on  double pole RCDs the size of two regular MCBs put together. Like a single phase RCD main switch in the UK. 

All lights seem to be on MCBs. (In Dublin not evidently on RCDs but in Germany they certainly were on RCDS)

There is a 100Amp MCCB at the DB origin here in Ireland something simmilar in Germany. 

None of these boards look like a UK DB - in layout- and the German DB that I saw really liked to use multiple layers of split load board with an RCD main switch and say 10 ways of MCBs after that. stacks of them for a very small space. 

The light switches and sockets in Ireland are the same as for England. 

German Light switches and sockets are a whole different storey and a complete pain in the *** to me as I felt like a day 1 apprentice trying to fit them in............


This one particular - rather smart commercial office building in the centre of Dublin - has a shocking mess of cabling, which I doubt is indicative of Irish cabling practices but this whole building is such an electrical mess it is unbelievable. 


Kind Regards