Ireland gambling licence register: how to verify a GRAI operator

Ireland's Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland, or GRAI, publishes a licence register for checking the legal account and activity behind an Irish betting claim. On 3 November 2026, Atlas read both published index pages, with 20 account links each, and all 40 distinct account licence summaries. They contain 42 licence objects: 37 Remote Betting, four Remote Betting Intermediary and one In-person Betting.

That is a census of account summaries and licence activities. It is not a census of trading names, consumer websites or launches. The 39 selected Atlas operator relationships keep their own evidence dates; this census does not renew them. A fresh country-policy review cannot replace the missing steps in an individual brand or domain check.

A targeted follow-up on 7 November read the two current index pages and the ten account records in the table. The index still displays 40 results, but the other 30 account records were not reread. The 40-account/42-object census therefore retains its 3 November date.

The retained 5 October CSV contains 36 licence rows across 35 distinct account names. The 3 November HTML inspection covers 40 account pages and 42 licence objects. The two measurements use different source formats and dates, so the new result is not described as a newly downloaded CSV or a fresh audit of every trading name.

Exchange Platform Solutions Limited and Triplebet Limited each have two licence objects. Spreadex Ltd and Triplebet Limited now appear in the published index, superseding earlier entity-level absence findings. The 7 November source read also recovered Matchbook as a published Triplebet trading name and six Spreadex trading-name variants. The separate Atlas brand relationships are now recorded as licensed: Matchbook (Triplebet Limited) Licensed to 30/09/2029 and Spreadex (Spreadex Ltd) Licensed to 24/09/2029, according to the GRAI register accessed 12/11/2026.

GRAI describes a Remote Betting Licence as permission to provide betting activities by remote means. A Remote Betting Intermediary Licence covers a facility that enables a person to bet remotely with another person other than the intermediary. RB and RBI therefore identify different activities.

The current account summaries show an RB licence for PPB Counterparty Services Limited and an RBI licence for Betfair International plc. Exchange Platform Solutions Limited and Triplebet Limited each show both activities. These are account-level findings; a consumer name still requires its own trading-name and legal-entity match.

The current GRAI category page also states the authority's view that prediction markets providing betting activities fall within the remote betting intermediary definition and require the appropriate licence before serving people in Ireland. This is a scoped regulatory position about betting activity, not a finding that every product described as a prediction market has the same permission. Record the actual facility and activity when assessing such a business.

The legal account identifies the holder recorded by the authority. A trading name connects a consumer-facing name to that account. A licence number identifies the particular permission and activity. Those links must be documented separately, even when the company name resembles the consumer brand.

The 3 November census read the licence-summary view. The 7 November follow-up additionally recovered the published trading-name data in the ten selected account pages. Examples include Betfair and Paddy Power under PPB Counterparty Services Limited, Betfair Exchange under Betfair International plc, 32Red and Unibet under Platinum Gaming Limited, and Matchbook and easybet under Triplebet Limited. These are published account-to-name observations, not consumer-domain approvals or a renewal of Atlas's separate operator relationships.

Spreadex Ltd publishes spreadexbet, spreadex sportsbet, spreadex sports bet, spreadex bet, betspreadex and spreadex sports. Preserve the exact spelling found in the authority record rather than silently converting variants into a broader group or website approval. The selected in-person account publishes no trading-name entry.

All 40 account summaries inspected on 3 November reported Domain Names (0). The ten records reread on 7 November each still contain an empty published domain-name array. This describes the inspected register fields, not whether the entities have websites. Neither observation establishes the exact consumer-domain link.

For a practical site check, record the complete domain and compare it with the operator's current Irish legal disclosure. Then connect that disclosure to the GRAI legal account and relevant trading name. Keep an unresolved domain-to-entity link visible; an account record cannot fill it in.

GRAI's current application guidance requires a public notice of intention at least 28 days before an application is submitted. Publication and creation of a portal account are application-stage steps. Applicants may complete business registration during the 28-day period; none of those steps establishes that GRAI has granted a licence.

The notice guidance says there should be one notice for each licence application. For a remote licence, publication is in a national daily newspaper circulating in the State, in both its physical and online editions. Retain the published copy, newspaper details and publication date. A mismatch between the notice and application may lead to refusal and a new notice with a fresh 28-day period, so check the proposed legal holder and licence type before publication.

Use the issued account licence record to establish the granted activity, then complete the trading-name, term and domain checks. A notice can identify a change to investigate; it cannot substitute for those primary records.

GRAI's B2B page describes a separate licence category for selling or supplying gambling products and gambling-related services, including software, equipment, online hosting and support indispensable to operating the gambling activity. Its current application guidance places B2B licensing in a later phase. The statutory commencement index still marks section 89 and the B2B application provisions in sections 123-128 as uncommenced. A category description or a supplier's inclusion in an operator's systems map therefore does not establish an issued GRAI B2B permission.

For a procurement file, identify the contracting supplier, the relevant product or service, the operator receiving it and the evidence for each asserted permission. Keep a B2C operator account match separate from a supplier-permission conclusion. If the applicable B2B opening or permission cannot be established, record that specific gap rather than borrowing the operator's betting licence.

GRAI's Policy Guidance for Licence Applicants requests policy documents in Word or PDF and says that linked material will not be opened, accessed or verified. Relevant procedures or supporting material held behind a hyperlink should therefore be supplied as separate documents when needed, rather than left solely in a policy's links.

The guidance covers AML/CFT, KYC, responsible gambling and customer terms, together with whistleblowing where applicable, IT security, disaster recovery and business continuity. It also requests a Remote Gambling Operational Map showing the locations and providers or operators of the systems and activities used to deliver gambling services, key equipment and connections with third-party providers. For a B2B review, that map helps connect a supplier's role to the operator's controls; it is application evidence, not certification of the supplier or proof that every legal provision described in guidance has commenced.

The Gambling Regulation Act separates betting, gaming and lottery permissions. The Irish Statute Book commencement index, updated to 21 October 2026 and read on 3 November, still marks the gaming and lottery licence provisions in sections 86-89 as uncommenced. GRAI continues to describe phased opening, while Revenue confirms that it retains gaming licensing until the transition.

None of the 42 inspected licence objects has Remote Gaming activity. A Remote Betting licence does not establish online casino or poker permission. Existing gaming and lottery arrangements with Revenue, An Garda Siochana and the District Courts remain relevant to their respective activities until the applicable statutory transition; a future category description is not an opened application or a granted permission.

Atlas counted 40 unique account links across the two published result pages, then read every account licence summary. Counting the actual objects gives 37 Remote Betting, four Remote Betting Intermediary and one In-person Betting record. The two dual-licence accounts explain why the object total exceeds the account total by two.

The current Atlas Ireland layer still contains 39 selected brand relationships: 38 are recorded as licensed, and PokerStars retains its existing narrow not-listed finding. Matchbook (Triplebet) Licensed to 30/09/2029; Spreadex Licensed to 24/09/2029; per the IE register accessed 12/11/2026. Those two relationship dates were renewed on 12 November 2026; the 3 November census itself renewed no relationship clock. Account counts, licence-object counts and selected-brand statuses answer different questions.

Name Ireland and the exact activity before searching. Read every page needed for a population count, deduplicate the account URLs and open each relevant account. Record the licence number, activity and dates, then inspect the trading-name view. Save the source URL and the actual date of inspection.

Check dates carefully. Multiple HTML account views recorded during the 3 November inspection displayed dates one day earlier than the retained 5 October CSV. In the current Hillside account source, the published issue_date is 2026-07-01 and expiry_date is 2029-06-30. Preserve the raw date field and the rendered display when they differ; the cause of the earlier discrepancy has not been established. This article does not overwrite individual Atlas terms or treat a display difference as a confirmed licence change.

Complete the domain-to-entity check separately from a current legal disclosure. The country profile and operator pages are navigation aids; the authority's applicable licence record controls the permission. An incomplete link should remain under review.

GRAI betting licensees must not permit under-18s to gamble. Remote licensees must verify identity and age before opening an account; S.I. 315/2026 provides an additional documentary route. The Act prohibits credit cards, electronic payments funded by credit cards and gambling credit, and requires a monetary-limit facility. Remote licensees must close an account on written request.

Section 173 provides for account information and immediate access to the balance, while alert intervals and reporting periods require prescription by GRAI. The February guidance PDF and the actual commencement order differ in how they list section 173: S.I. 31/2026 and the current statutory index establish commencement of the section. This guide does not invent an operative alert interval.

The current statutory index marks the national exclusion-register provisions in sections 44-49 and advertising provisions in sections 143-151 as uncommenced. General GRAI pages explaining the future central register, advertising statements, social-media restrictions or broadcast watershed do not establish that all those provisions are already operational. Individual voluntary exclusion arrangements and obligations outside those sections remain separate.

S.I. 513/2026 took effect on 16 October. It prescribes financial, AML/KYC, voluntary-exclusion, monetary-limit and payment records. Remote-licensee records also cover account applications, identity checks, deposits, payments, winnings and losses, balances, time spent, closures, refunds and inactive accounts. Prescribed records must be maintained electronically in a form capable of being made legible.

How many accounts and licences were inspected? Forty account pages and 42 licence objects on 3 November 2026. Are those 40 online casinos? No: the activity split is 37 Remote Betting, four Remote Betting Intermediary and one In-person Betting, with no Remote Gaming object.

Are Matchbook and Spreadex still absent? No. Their earlier entity-level absence findings are superseded by current accounts for Triplebet Limited and Spreadex Ltd. Matchbook (Triplebet) Licensed to 30/09/2029; Spreadex Licensed to 24/09/2029; per the IE register accessed 12/11/2026. The account summaries publish no consumer domains. Is a familiar domain approved by this inspection? No: the complete 3 November population and the ten records reread on 7 November publish no domains.

Does this update renew every operator check? No. The complete account-summary population was reviewed on 3 November. The targeted 7 November source and application-workflow update preserves that census date, the separate relationship dates and existing individual terms. Does a B2C account record approve its software supplier? No: operator permissions and the separately phased B2B category must be checked independently.

Material update on 3 November 2026: replaced the current 36-row/35-account framing with a complete 40-account/42-object HTML census; corrected the stale Spreadex and Triplebet entity-absence statements; added the current gaming, advertising and exclusion-register commencement boundaries and the records rules effective on 16 October. The 5 October CSV remains a historical source, not a new download.

The 7 November partial update reread the current index, ten selected account records, application guidance and supporting official sources. It adds published trading-name observations, notice-publication requirements, B2B permission boundaries and practical policy-evidence guidance. It does not repeat the complete 40-account census or complete all consumer-domain and canonical-term checks. The last complete census remains dated 3 November; the partial 7 November source checks do not establish a new complete census or a completed full-guide review.

This guide retains a 14-day review cadence while GRAI licensing expands. The update does not establish account eligibility, geolocation, consumer-site availability, a domain approval or permission outside a recorded activity. New grants, withdrawals, trading-name changes and category commencements can change the answer. Submit source-backed corrections through the Atlas corrections process; payment does not influence the finding.