GRAI Licence Register: Who Is Licensed in Ireland

Ireland's licence register is live — here is what it shows

For the first time, Ireland has a single public register answering the question "is this operator licensed here?". The Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland (GRAI) publishes its register of gambling licensees as a filterable list with a CSV download, and section 90(7) of the Gambling Regulation Act 2024 obliges the Authority to publish that register on its website and make it available for public inspection free of charge (Irish Statute Book, s.90).

This page is a living tracker of the register and the licensing rollout behind it, last verified on 2026-07-11 against the register itself, the GRAI's announcements and the text of the Act. The headline status: the register's 2026-07-08 update lists 15 licences, every one of them a Business to Consumer remote betting licence, and the first of them commenced on 1 July 2026 (GRAI). No gaming — online casino — licences have been issued, because the GRAI has not yet opened applications for them.

This article analyses the GRAI's published register and primary legal sources — we do not deposit at casinos in Ireland. See our methodology for how we source and flag claims. Under section 165 of the same Act, Irish coverage on this site avoids inducement framing: this page tells you how to check a licence, not where to sign up.

Licence types under the Gambling Regulation Act 2024

The Act replaces a patchwork of laws going back to the Betting Act 1931 and the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956 with one licensing system under one regulator. Section 84 empowers the GRAI to issue three categories of licence: Business to Consumer, gambling licences for a charitable or philanthropic purpose, and Business to Business (Irish Statute Book, s.84).

Within the Business to Consumer category, section 85 defines four betting licences — in-person, remote, combined in-person and remote, and the remote betting intermediary licence for exchanges — while section 86 defines the gaming licences that will cover casino products: in-person, remote and combined, each specifying the "relevant games" the licensee is allowed to provide from a list the Authority prescribes (Irish Statute Book, s.86). Lottery licences sit at section 87, charitable and philanthropic licences at section 88, and B2B licences for suppliers at section 89.

The rollout is deliberately phased. Betting came first: applications opened on 9 February 2026 for remote betting, remote betting intermediary and in-person betting licences (GRAI), after Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan signed the commencement order on 4 February 2026 (GRAI). Applications for the remaining licence types — gaming, lotteries, B2B, charitable and philanthropic — open throughout 2027 and 2028, per the GRAI's 1 July 2026 announcement. Until then, the old regime keeps running in parallel: the GRAI's own guidance tells existing gaming licence holders to continue renewing with the Revenue Commissioners, and lottery licence holders to continue with the Courts Service and An Garda Síochána (GRAI licensing guidance).

Reading the register correctly

Every entry above is a Business to Consumer licence for the activity "Remote Betting", downloaded from the register's CSV export on 2026-07-11. Three details matter when you interpret it.

First, brands hide behind legal entities. bet365's licence is held by Hillside (Europe) ENC; Coral, Bwin and Sportingbet sit under ElectraWorks Limited. The register's trading-name column is where brand names appear, so search both columns before concluding an operator is unlicensed.

Second, the activity column outranks the brand name. QuinnCasino and Casinoin appear as trading names on the register, but the licensed activity for every current entry is remote betting — the register contains no remote gaming licence, because the GRAI has not opened gaming applications. A familiar casino brand name on this register is not evidence that its casino product holds a GRAI licence.

Third, the licences carry stated terms. The 13 licences issued on 1 July 2026 expire on 30 June 2029, and the two issued on 6 July 2026 expire on 5 July 2029 — three-year terms, with the issue and expiry dates listed per licence in the register. Section 90 of the Act also requires the register to record sanctions, suspensions and revocations against licensees over time, which will make it the primary public record of operator conduct in Ireland.

What comes next — and what it means for players

The GRAI's published sequence gives this tracker its forward calendar. In-person betting licences commence later in 2026. Applications for the remaining licence types — gaming, lotteries, B2B, charitable and philanthropic — open throughout 2027 and 2028 (GRAI). The register will grow with each phase, and we update this page as it does.

For players, the substantive change arrived with the first licences on 1 July 2026: GRAI licensees are now bound by the commenced obligations of the Act — age verification, the obligation to pay out winnings, closing your account on request, and the ban on accepting credit cards or facilitating credit. That last one is section 165, Ireland's gambling credit-card ban, which follows the money through e-wallets funded from a credit card as well.

The licence register is the regulatory layer of a two-layer system. The other layer is bank-side: Irish banks and e-money apps run their own voluntary gambling blocks that decline gambling card payments regardless of the operator's licence status — how Revolut's gambling block works in Ireland covers the largest of them, and our casino payments in Ireland hub maps how the statutory and bank-side controls fit together. A GRAI licence tells you an operator passed the Authority's fit-and-proper, financial-capacity and lawful-winnings vetting; it does not change what your own bank or app will let through.