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Amazon do have free books and bigger publishers can set them free. You just can't select "free" on basic Amazon KDP, and been that way for years.
If it's a series of more than 10 books at a sensible price, and you set the 1st to US$0.99 everywhere and it's free everywhere else, then Amazon may set it to free unilaterally without communication, and might later reset it, or put it to the $US 0.99 equivalent elsewhere later.
Also on KDP you can't differentiate Ireland (€ and EU) and UK (£ and not EU), though Irish Kindles can only use USA OR UK store, but in reality it's the UK price and availability now converted to US$. Also this year (approximately) the non-KDP publishers can make a book available in UK or USA and not Ireland, or set a separate UK £ / US$ price for Irish Customers.
Kobo does have an Irish store and mostly the the US$ or UK£ price as Euros, but occasionally higher or unavailable even on UK titles, which is very odd.
This is strange, because since 1922, UK rights have included Ireland for books, magazines and music and mostly the same as UK price plus currency hedge since currency split (before euro). Even UK TV rights (except sometimes sport) have included Ireland (no Local TV till 1962, but many received UK), but not vice versa due to 20x bigger market.
I'm not even sure of the legality of Amazon forcing Irish Kindle users to use a non-EU site. We can use Amazon Germany for many items and even with shipping Germany-Ireland it can be cheaper than Amazon UK with "free" shipping. Germany same currency, no customs and Amazon DE has English as well as German. It's also used by Austria, Switzerland and others.
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