Ireland legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 1,201,086+ Irish laws, regulations, court decisions and regulatory materials from Irish government, judicial and regulatory institutions across 43 official portals. Search Irish legal data directly or connect it to your AI agent, legaltech product or research workflow through Lawstronaut's API and MCP server. Every record is linked to its official source and structured in the same format used across more than 150 jurisdictions.
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Which Irish Act implements the GDPR at national level?
The Data Protection Act 2018 (No. 7 of 2018) — the Act of the Oireachtas that gives further effect to the GDPR and establishes the Data Protection Commission.
Source: Houses of the Oireachtas — data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/act/2018/7/gle/enacted/a0718i.pdf
Retrieved: 2026-10-01 · Version: 1 · Cited in-turn
The official Irish sources we cover
Lawstronaut collects Irish legal materials from official government, parliamentary, court, and regulator sources. Each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: the statute book and revised legislation · parliament (the Oireachtas) · the official gazette · courts and tribunals · regulators · government and agency portals · tax and financial authorities
- Irish Statute Book (irishstatutebook.ie)
- Ireland Revised Acts (revisedacts.ie)
- Houses of the Oireachtas (oireachtas.ie)
- Iris Oifigiúil — Official Gazette (irisoifigiuil.ie)
- The Courts Service of Ireland (courts.ie)
- BAILII Databases (bailii.org)
- Government of Ireland (gov.ie)
- Data Protection Commission (dataprotection.ie)
- Central Bank of Ireland (centralbank.ie)
- Ireland Revenue Commissioners (revenue.ie)
- Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (ccpc.ie)
- Workplace Relations Commission (workplacerelations.ie)
Irish legal source types covered
Irish legal coverage includes primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Acts of the Oireachtas, statutory instruments (S.I.s), and commencement orders, taken directly from the Irish Statute Book (irishstatutebook.ie) and the consolidated Revised Acts (revisedacts.ie), with promulgation notices from Iris Oifigiúil.
Legislative History
Bills, parliamentary debates, motions, and resolutions from the Houses of the Oireachtas (Dáil and Seanad Éireann) where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Guidance, decisions, circulars, consultations, and enforcement materials from Irish regulators such as the Data Protection Commission, the Central Bank of Ireland, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, and ComReg.
Case Law
Court and tribunal decisions from official Irish sources, including the Courts Service of Ireland and BAILII, alongside tribunals such as the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court, and the Tax Appeals Commission, where available.
One Irish legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Irish laws, regulations, court decisions, regulatory guidance, and enforcement materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools.
GET /v2/contents?iso=IE&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Irish legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Irish materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Irish legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build Irish legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you can do with Irish legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across Irish legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Irish law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Irish sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Irish legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Irish legal research
Irish legal information is spread across the Irish Statute Book, the Revised Acts service, the Oireachtas, Iris Oifigiúil, the courts, and dozens of independent regulators and agencies. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About Ireland legal coverage
Ireland is a common-law jurisdiction with a written constitution, Bunreacht na hÉireann. Primary legislation is made by the Oireachtas (Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann) as Acts, with secondary legislation issued as statutory instruments; both are published on the Irish Statute Book (irishstatutebook.ie), with consolidated texts on the Revised Acts service (revisedacts.ie) and promulgation notices in Iris Oifigiúil. Case law comes from the superior courts — the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court — as well as the Circuit and District Courts, published via the Courts Service and BAILII. Regulatory guidance sits with bodies such as the Data Protection Commission, the Central Bank of Ireland, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, and ComReg. Records are published in English, with Irish-language versions of several official sources.
Irish law moves quickly: as an EU member state, Ireland transposes a steady stream of EU-derived rules, its regulators publish frequent guidance and enforcement decisions, and — because Ireland is the lead EU supervisory authority for many of the largest technology companies — its data-protection and financial-services practice evolves continuously. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps an Irish legal research answer correct today.
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Legaltech companies
Build Irish legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Irish regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Irish legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Irish legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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