Just when we learnt about the issues in us-east, AWS managed to remind us Europians that we're no better and the service is as unreliable here as it is in the states.
The difference I guess is that we do not have other regions within EU so going multi-region is slightly more difficult (trans-Atlantic latencies, legal issues of e.g. storing user data in the U.S etc).
Status: http://status.aws.amazon.com/ (switch to the Europe tab to see Ireland's status).