Seemingly Amazon UK has finally “seen the light” and is planning on introducing free shipping to Ireland for purchases over £25.
There’s more coverage in The Irish Times, but it’s not exactly clear WHEN they are going to start offering this. (They obviously aren’t today)

From FRLinux:
Now this is cool! Looking forward to that
From Michele Neylon:
Yeah – I just wish they’d given some indication as to when they’d start offering this !
From FRLinux:
When they fix their cloud (: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/05/amazon_bitbucket_outage/
From Richard Hearne:
They are using Adwords today to promote the free shipping:
Garmin at Amazon.co.uk
Low prices on garmin.
Free Delivery on Orders over £25.
Amazon.co.uk/Ireland
Looks like we’ll see this very shortly.