Who we are
GRAI Ledger is published under the name GRAI Ledger Team — we operate as an independent organisation rather than under individual bylines, and we're upfront about that rather than inventing a persona to sign articles with. What we're accountable for is narrow and checkable: the accuracy of the licence-status claims on this site, sourced and cross-checked the way this page describes.
Our background is in affiliate SEO and content operations across regulated online-gambling markets, which is exactly why we built this: existing coverage of Ireland's licensing transition was either legal-press dense or affiliate-marketing shallow, with nobody tracking brand-level status in plain language. We don't operate, promote, or take payment from any of the brands tracked in the registry.
What this project is
GRAI Ledger is an independent tracking project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated on behalf of the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland. We built it because Ireland's licensing transition is genuinely confusing — even some legal-press coverage conflates betting and gaming licence categories — and no single public page tracked brand-level status in plain language.
How we verify status
Each brand's status is checked against three sources, in this order of authority:
- GRAI's Operator Portal and public register, once a given licence category is live, for a confirmed licence number.
- Iris Oifigiúil, Ireland's official state gazette, where operators are required to publish their 28-day Notice of Intention before applying.
- The operator's own published licence footer, cross-checked against the issuing regulator's public register (MGA, UKGC, or equivalent) rather than taken at face value.
A brand is only marked "GRAI licensed" once we've confirmed a specific licence number through the first source. "Notice filed" reflects a public filing we've located but no confirmed licence yet. "No filing" means we found neither — it does not imply the brand is doing anything wrong, since most casinos serving Irish players are still operating entirely legally under foreign licences during the transition.
Update cadence
Each brand row shows the date it was individually last checked. We review the full list on a rolling basis and update immediately when we can confirm a status change — there's no fixed weekly or monthly schedule, since GRAI's own rollout doesn't move on a fixed schedule either.
Reporting a correction
If you operate one of the tracked brands and believe your status is shown incorrectly, or if you've spotted a brand we're missing entirely, get in touch via our Telegram channel. We'll verify against the sources above before updating — we don't take an operator's word for its own status without a matching public record.
Why we don't review individual casinos
Plenty of sites already rank and review casino brands on bonuses, game libraries, and player experience. That's a different job with a different incentive structure, and we'd rather stay narrowly useful at the one thing that's actually hard to find elsewhere: an honest, plain-language answer to "does this brand actually hold a GRAI licence."