Are we sure there are no snakes in Ireland?

Is it true that there are no snakes in Ireland?

Free Derry was a no-go area in Ireland.

Ireland joined the European Community in 1973 and the eurozone currency union in 1999.

Ireland is a very beautiful country.

The case ignited controversy in Ireland.

The United States expanded its travel ban with Europe to include the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The neighbors sent their kid on a linguistic trip to Ireland this summer.

As one who, in a tangled brake apart, / on some lithe snake, unheeded in the briar, / hath trodden heavily, and with backward start / flies, trembling at the head uplift in ire / and blue neck, swoln in many a glittering spire. / So slinks Androgeus, shuddering with dismay.

Is it true that there aren't any snakes in Ireland?