Working it out on Clove.co.uk - even with the discount price over Samsung UK, the Edge Plus 64gb at £680 + £24 shipping to Ireland = £704
With current Euro conversion rate
its €998 !!!! Actually more that I originally thought (I guesstimated around 900 when i was walking on the beach earlier).
So if I were to sell my 3 week old Gold S6 Edge 64gb for €500 - it's going to cost me near the same again to purchase the Plus. Essentially at that rate, I could buy an additional nearly new S6 Edge 64gb for the price it would cost me to upgrade my existing to the Plus
That's just insanity if I did that. A part of me would like to, but even as impulsive / irrational about having the 'latest' phones - I can't in all good logic go down that route, especially to face the prospect that come Feb when the S7 is all gearing up to be announced and I'll have lost another €400 on the plus !!! It literally is throwing good money after bad this upgrade - that it becomes untenable.
Looks like I'm just going to have to accept the ram issues