The Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland (GRAI) is Ireland's gambling regulator, established in March 2025 under the Gambling Regulation Act 2024 to replace a licensing patchwork dating from 1931 and 1956, with a licensing regime for betting, gaming and lotteries, online and land-based, phased in from 2026. Its remit includes a national exclusion register, a ban on gambling with credit cards, an advertising watershed, powers over advertising volume and content, a social impact fund financed by a levy, and B2B supplier licensing.
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Ireland's gambling regulator has now published 235 notices of intent to apply for a licence, and most of the recent ones come from racecourse and high-street bookmakers whose Revenue licences expire on 30 November. Its own register shows how far it still has to go: one in-person betting licence issued so far.
Kambi has signed the UK and Irish bookmaker to its full outsourced sportsbook at a time when partner migrations are shrinking its European business. The value, the term and the launch date are not disclosed, and QuinnBet's last platform move ended in a Gambling Commission finding.
The "world's largest" online casino has shut its whole site to Irish users and says it will apply for a licence, while the regulator says two prediction markets and a major platform have geo-blocked and deposits are being refunded.
Ireland's Gambling Regulatory Authority has opened a public consultation on three foundational sets of regulations covering which games operators may offer, what records they must keep, and what account information they must proactively share with players. Submissions close on 20 August 2026, with final rules to follow.
Ireland's new gambling regulator has begun issuing statutory licences, switching on the regime built under the Gambling Regulation Act 2024 and starting the long transition from a fragmented legacy system to a single supervised market.