Does Apple Pay work in Ireland?
Yes. Apple Pay has been available in Ireland since March 2017 and is supported by AIB, Bank of Ireland, PTSB and Revolut among others. Google Pay launched even earlier, in December 2016, and together the two wallets account for most contactless taps in Irish shops.
In detail
Yes. Apple Pay has been available in Ireland since March 2017 and is supported by AIB, Bank of Ireland, PTSB and Revolut among others. Google Pay launched even earlier, in December 2016, and together the two wallets account for most contactless taps in Irish shops.
How people pay in Ireland in 2026
Ireland is a card and phone market. The Banking and Payments Federation Ireland counted more than 1.6 billion contactless payments worth over €30 billion in 2025, 88.7% of all point-of-sale card payments, and 62.4% of those taps came from a phone or a watch rather than a plastic card.
Payment by digital wallet and X-Pay in Ireland
Ireland is one of Europe's most phone-first markets at the till. Google launched Android Pay in Ireland in December 2016 and Apple Pay followed in March 2017; by 2025, 62.4% of contactless payments came from a mobile wallet, 159 phone or watch taps per person in a year. The ECB's SPACE study counts Ireland among the three euro area countries where mobile devices exceed 10% of point-of-sale transactions. Most of those taps are tokenized Visa and Mastercard debit cards, which is what X-Pay means in Ireland.
More detail in our #PayWorldTour guide Payment methods in Ireland.