How we rate bookmakers

Only bookmakers that hold a Remote Betting licence from the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland (GRAI) can appear on Voienexo. We check each one on the GRAI public register: the licensed company, the licence number (in the form GRAI-xxxx-RB-26-0001), the licence activity and dates, and the trading names and web addresses recorded for that licence. The register was last checked on 3 October 2026.

We link only to a brand and an Irish web address that match the bookmaker’s entry on the register, and only to its sports betting pages. If a licence expires, is suspended or no longer covers the brand we link to, we take the bookmaker off our lists as soon as we see it. We re-check the register for every listed bookmaker at least once a month.

A licence is the entry ticket, not a score. Holding one says nothing about how good a bookmaker’s racing coverage or app is — that is what the ratings are for.

Every bookmaker is scored on the same five questions a reader in Ireland is likely to ask. Each question gets between one and five stars in half-star steps (a half star marks something we could only partly confirm), and all five carry the same weight — a simple system is easier to check.

Irish sport coverage

We start with racing, because it is the backbone of betting in Ireland, then Gaelic games, football and rugby. A high score means the bookmaker covers Irish meetings and the GAA championships with more than a handful of markets, and explains racing terms such as each way and starting price on its own pages.

Live betting & streaming

We describe what the bookmaker offers in-play and what its pages say about streaming and cash out. We do not score a feature as if it were certain to be available: cash out can be suspended or withdrawn at the bookmaker’s discretion, and streams depend on rights and conditions the bookmaker sets.

App & site

We look at which platforms are offered and how the bookmaker describes them, and how easy it is to find markets, settings and help. We do not invent app-store ratings or download figures.

Payments in euro

We list the methods the bookmaker publishes for Irish customers and summarise its own description of how withdrawals work: identity checks, the review step and how payment is made. Timings depend on those checks, the method and your bank, so we never score a bookmaker on promised speed.

Safer-betting tools

Under the Gambling Regulation Act 2024, GRAI licensees have legal duties towards customers, so the existence of limits is not a reason to praise any one brand. What we score is how easy the tools are to find and switch on, and how clearly the bookmaker explains them.

The overall rating is the simple average of the five scores, rounded to the nearest half star. For example, scores of 5, 4, 4, 4 and 5 average 4.4, which is shown as 4.5 stars; scores of 4, 3, 4, 3 and 4 average 3.6, shown as 3.5 stars. We always show the five scores next to the overall rating, so you can weigh the questions that matter to you.

Stars are only half the story. Each review also says who the bookmaker is best suited for — for example racing fans, GAA followers, people who mostly bet in-play or readers who want everything in an app — and when to think twice: a sport it covers thinly, a payment method it does not list, a tool that is hard to find.

These lines are editorial judgements drawn from the same sources as the scores. They describe fit, not a recommendation to bet.

• Promotions of any kind. Offers change often, come with conditions and are a reason to bet rather than a reason to choose a bookmaker, so they play no part in our scores and we do not list them.
• Withdrawal timings. We describe the bookmaker’s published withdrawal steps; we do not rank anyone on how quickly money arrives, because that depends on checks, method and bank.
• Prices on a given day. Odds move constantly. We explain how odds work in our guides, but we do not claim that any bookmaker always has the highest prices.
• Tips and results. We do not publish predictions, so nothing here measures anyone’s betting results.
• Customer reviews. We do not publish user reviews or star ratings from readers, because we cannot verify who wrote them.

Scores are based on the bookmaker’s own Irish pages — terms and conditions (version and date), help, payments and safer gambling pages — and on the GRAI register. Reviews say which page a detail comes from and when it was checked.

We do not claim to have opened accounts or placed bets to test a bookmaker. Where a feature depends on your account, location or the bookmaker’s discretion, we say that rather than present it as certain.

On pages that list several bookmakers, our editors decide the order. The main things that shape it are the overall star rating, how relevant a bookmaker is to the subject of the page (a racing guide may lead with strong racing coverage) and our commercial arrangements with bookmakers. Commercial arrangements can move a bookmaker up or down a list; they never change its stars, its scores or the facts we report. Lists that can be influenced in this way carry an “Advertising” label.

We may be paid when a reader opens an account through our links (see Advertising disclosure). Bookmakers cannot buy a higher score, a better “best suited for” line or the removal of a “think twice” point, and they do not approve our reviews before publication. If a bookmaker that pays us scores poorly on a question, the review says so.

The GRAI register is re-checked at least monthly. Reviews are revisited when a bookmaker changes its Irish terms, payment methods or safer gambling tools, and every review shows the date it was last checked. This page was last updated on 3 October 2026; if we change the method, we will say what changed and when.

Tell us through the contact form (topic “Correct or update our information”) or at support@voienexo.com. Please include the page and, if you can, a link to the bookmaker’s page that shows the correct detail. We check every report and correct confirmed errors.