Site announcements

Planned Maintenance Works
Work Type: Firewall Upgrade
 
Maintenance Window
Date: Sunday 22/02/2026
Start time: 07:30am
End time: 08:00am
 
Description of Works
IT Services will be upgrading our core firewall. During the maintenance window we will need to restart the firewall, When this happens there will be a complete Internet outage and loss of all services. The outage will result in an estimated loss of service of 10-15 minutes.

The restart is planned between 7.30 and 08.00am this Sunday morning 22/02/2026

Services Unaffected
Themis, Zoom, and Microsoft Office online are all hosted in the cloud and will not be affected by these works
 
Services Affected
This outage will affect most other services including the services below which will be unavailable during the maintenance window.
 
•             Internet access (Only on South Circular Road campus)
•             Griffith.ie
•             VPN Access
•             Moodle / Videos of Recorded Classes
•             MyGriffith
•             Knuth (Computing Science)
•             Editshare (Create Arts & Screen Media)
•             Printing
•             On campus Wi-Fi
•             Student & Staff network drives
•             Mercury Halls Of Residence Platform

 
Regards,
IT Services