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Payment methods for Irish betting sites

Credit cards and e-wallets funded by credit cards are banned for gambling in Ireland under s.165 of the Gambling Regulation Act 2024, in force since 5 February 2026. Bookie Ledger compares eight other methods on each operator's public pages. As of 7 November 2026 no operator has been checked, so no method is confirmed anywhere.

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What does s.165 change?

Section 165 bans credit cards and electronic methods that are funded from credit cards. It has applied since 5 February 2026.

For a reader this means a deposit method that routes through a credit card is not lawful, even if it is offered under another name. For a comparison it means credit cards are never listed as a method.

Bottom line: credit cards are excluded from every comparison here.

Which eight methods are compared?

The payments group uses a fixed list. Each method published by an operator earns one point, up to eight.

  • Debit card
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • PayPal
  • Revolut
  • Skrill
  • Neteller
  • Open Banking or bank transfer

No confirmed list of the methods Irish bettors use exists, so the list is fixed in advance and applied to everyone.

Bottom line: the same eight methods are checked for every operator.

What can your bank do?

Some banks let a customer block gambling payments. The GRAI Protection Tools page names AIB, Bank of Ireland, EBS, PTSB and Revolut.

A bank block is a self-exclusion tool that acts at payment level. It does not replace the operator's own tools. The national self-exclusion register is not in force.

Bottom line: a bank block can stop gambling payments before an operator sees them.

How do method pages and withdrawal pages differ?

A method page describes the deposit side: availability as published, minimum and maximum, fees and the rule behind it.

Timings for taking money out sit on the withdrawals hub, and published methods per operator are compared in the data tables. Only times stated by operators are recorded. Nothing is measured, and nothing is repeated between the two.

Method pages for debit cards, PayPal, Apple Pay and Revolut are published in later batches.

Bottom line: deposit side here, withdrawal side on its own pages.

How can you check a method before depositing?

  1. Open the operator's payment page and read the method list.
  2. Note the minimum, maximum and any fee.
  3. Check that the method is not funded from a credit card.
  4. Read the withdrawal terms for the same method.
  5. Set a deposit limit before the first deposit.

The payment options ranking shows what each operator publishes, with dates.

Bottom line: read both the deposit and the withdrawal terms before paying in.

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