About this site
This domain ran as an Irish business directory from May 2003 until May 2026. It held a few hundred thousand listings across roughly two thousand categories and all thirty two counties, most of them bulk imported, and it charged businesses a small annual fee for a page.
It stopped being maintained some years before it stopped being online. By the end, most of the records were a decade or more out of date.
Why the listings are not here
The old listing data belonged to whoever compiled it, and republishing it would be someone else’s database on someone else’s work. That on its own settles it.
Even setting that aside, it would have been a bad idea. Those records were stale while the site was still running. A great many of the businesses in them have closed, moved or changed hands. Putting a hundred thousand pages of wrong phone numbers and dead addresses back online would look like a directory and function as a trap.
So none of it has been carried over. Old listing URLs redirect here rather than resolving to anything.
What it is now
A short reference on how to check that an Irish business or tradesperson is entitled to do what they say they do.
That is a narrower job than a directory and a more useful one. Ireland has real public registers for a lot of trades and professions, held by about fifteen separate bodies, and most people cannot name more than two of them. Working out whether the electrician quoting for your rewire needs to be registered, and where that register lives, is genuinely hard right now. It should not be.
Every register named on this site has been checked against the body that runs it rather than copied from another site. Where a register is incomplete, stale or narrower than its name suggests, that is said on the page. Where no register exists for a trade, that is said too, because being told plainly that there is no plumber register is more useful than being pointed at a trade association and left to assume it is a regulator.
What this site is not
It is not a directory and it does not list businesses. It holds no copy of any register and it cannot look anyone up for you. It has no connection to any of the bodies whose registers it links to.
Nobody pays to be named here, and no link on this site was sold.
Corrections
Registers move, bodies get renamed and merged, and legislation commences. Several of the links here point at pages that have already moved once. If something on this site is wrong or out of date, it is worth more to have it corrected than defended.
Checked . Registers move and bodies get renamed. If a link here is dead, the register almost certainly still exists somewhere else on the same organisation's site.