High Octane fuel in Republic Ireland?

[SV_WDC]

Currently planning an Irish road trip but wondering which petrol stations (if any) stock 98+ RON unleaded fuel.

GPT seems to suggest many independents stock 98 RON, but when looking online there seems to be many people saying not even 97 RON is widely stocked anywhere.

Welcome input

[garythesign]

Circle K supply 97RON

Their website shows the location where it is sold - https://www.circlek.ie

Good luck with the trip. Ireland is a great country for a roadtrip

[Cheib]

You could try a fuel additive ? For my classic 911 (which I took to Ireland a couple of years ago) I use a Millers fuel additive which has an Octane booster and also has an additive to help deal with Ethanol in modern fuels. I travelled with a mate who also has a classic 911 to France recently, his car wasn’t running very well on the fuel he’d filled up with, we popped some of the Millers in the tank,..made a big difference.

[Johnson897210]

Seems ridiculously backward, is not widely available as mentioned. Maybe they run everything on red diesel?

[E34]

Unfortunately, there is only 95 RON available in the ROI. Higher octane is available in NI if you’re travelling up north. Otherwise bring some octane booster. Most here seem to favour NF octane booster.

[Bezerk]

Not available but any modern car will run just fine on 95.

[Leins]

Bezerk said:

Not available but any modern car will run just fine on 95.

That’s assuming we’re even getting 95 here. I’m running booster on my petrol cars here anyway, as I find it so poor, and booster/ethanol protector on the older one as it’s not E10 compatible

To the OP, many stations sell what looks like a premium petrol beside the standard, but there’s no greater octane rating with these and they’re still an E10. You cannot get E5 anywhere anymore in the RoI

From memory, it’s all to do with our government at the time deciding they’d tax higher octane fuel at a proportionally increased rate, and then combined with lower demand anyway all the petrol stations gave it up