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Ireland
EUR5.35 MBritish-Isles
Payment mix at the point of sale · 2024
Cash 49%
Cards 37%
- Cash49%
- Cards37%
- Wallets10%
- Other4%
Cash settles 49% of payments here, the 8-highest of 18 tracked markets.
POS terminals
3,165,000
2025·+37.3% year on year
19202122232425
Provided by resident PSPs (ECB)·The series steps up in 2022 with a change in ECB reporting, not with new terminals.
Key figures
Accepted methods · 13
VisaMastercardAmerican ExpressUnionPayJCBDiners Club / DiscoverApple PayGoogle PayPayPalSEPA Instant Credit TransferWeroKlarnaUSDC (stablecoin acceptance)
What applies here
- Supervisor
- Central Bank of Ireland
- Interchange
- EU IFR: 0.2% debit / 0.3% credit on consumer cards.
- Surcharging
- Banned on consumer cards covered by the IFR (PSD2 Art. 62(4), transposed by the European Union (Payment Services) Regulations).
12providers with a tracked share
Who, and at what shareHeadquartered here · 1
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Sources: data-api.ecb.europa.eu·data.ecb.europa.eu·ec.europa.eu·eur-lex.europa.eu·ecb.europa.eu
Data as of 12 Aug 2026·Compare all 22 markets