Dave
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The reason for the + is because different countries use different access codes. The UK uses 00 whereas the USA uses 011, for example.
The 1 at the beginning of a UK STD code is part of the code and is always dialled whenever the code is dialled. It's never dropped as that would mean conflicts in numbering which is the very reason it's there for in the first place.
You only drop the national prefix, in the UK it is 0, to replace it with the international access code. For example 01234 xxxxxx becomes +44 1234 xxxxxx, which, from the USA/Canada would be 011 44 1234 xxxxxx.
In most of Europe the international access code is 00, so you would call it 00 44 1234 xxxxx.
I have left spaces so as to differentiate between international access code, country code, STD area code and local number.
And so, the Irish example is 00 353 1 2794027 from the UK or 011 353 1 2794027 from USA/Canada.
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