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Irish passport, MyGovID and Public Services Card on one session — CBI-aligned AML, GDPR by default, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Ireland.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Irish identity fraud: deepfake injection on remote-onboarding flows used by CBI-licensed challenger banks and crypto-asset firms, synthetic-identity attacks on PPSN-linked credit applications, and document forgery on the Irish driving licence and Public Services Card. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010
  • AMLD6
  • MiCA
  • eIDAS 2.0
  • DORA
  • GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018
  • CBI AML/CFT Guidelines for the Financial Sector
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Ireland.

These are the supervisors a Ireland verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them — no separate integration per agency.
  • CBI

    Central Bank of Ireland — central bank and integrated supervisor for banks, payment institutions, electronic money institutions, insurance, securities markets and crypto-asset service providers (under MiCA).

  • DPC

    Data Protection Commission — General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018 supervisor for Ireland and lead supervisor for most Big Tech.

  • FIU Ireland

    Financial Intelligence Unit Ireland at An Garda Síochána — receives Suspicious Transaction Reports (STR) under the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010.

  • Revenue

    Revenue Commissioners — operates the PPSN (Personal Public Service Number) and tax-residency registries used in KYB and treasury onboarding.

  • CRO / RBO

    Companies Registration Office and Central Register of Beneficial Ownership — the authoritative source for Irish company and beneficial-owner data.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Ireland database cross-check — composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • Works for every primary Irish credential — Irish passport (with chip read on e-Passports), Public Services Card, MyGovID, Irish driving licence, Irish Residence Permit (IRP) for non-EEA nationals, and every EU / EEA national identity card.
  • Returns the name, document number, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Irish passport (chip + NFC)
  • Public Services Card · MyGovID
  • Irish driving licence · Irish Residence Permit · EU / EEA national IDs
02 · Biometric

Match the face. Prove it's a real person..

Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.

  • Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
  • Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows — user turns or blinks.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

Didit screens the user's name against the global pool of 1,300+ sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), and adverse-media lists, plus every Irish regulatory watchlist (House of Assembly PEP register, An Garda Síochána alerts, The Irish Times adverse-media, FIU Ireland alerts) and cross-border lists (HMT/OFSI UK, OFAC SDN, EU consolidated, UN consolidated).

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

Read the docs
Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

Cross-check against Irish civil + credit registries.

Cross-checked against the authoritative civil registry.

  • The `irl_credit_bureau` check ($0.77, ~50% coverage) hits credit-bureau header data — useful for CBI consumer-credit underwriting.
  • The `irl_citizens` ($2.03, ~20%) cross-checks name against Irish civil-registry data; `irl_voter_registration` ($1.13, ~20%) confirms voter-roll presence.
  • The `irl_residential` ($2.03, ~20%) and `irl_utility` ($2.03, ~20%) services round out address + utility coverage.
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Stage 04Cross-check against Irish civil + credit registries

Cross-check against Irish civil + credit registries — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Ireland document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential — flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter — the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
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EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
FAQ

Common questions about Ireland.

Infrastructure for identity and fraud.

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