The 7 Best B2B Data Providers in Ireland: Where the Giants File Nothing (2026)

Ireland has a public register and a peculiar hole in it. Every Irish company files annual returns and financial statements with the Companies Registration Office, and you can search it free, paying only to download a document. But many of the largest Irish-registered entities, the holding companies and IP vehicles of US multinationals, are structured as unlimited companies, and unlimited companies do not file public accounts. So on the biggest names in the country, the register can tell you remarkably little.

That quirk aside, the commercial market is smaller than it looks, because the leading domestic business-data name, Vision-net, and its self-serve sibling both sit under the Italian CRIF group. Around them are the global bureaus and a centuries-old tradition of publishing defaulters. This guide sorts out who genuinely adds value.

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1. Vision-net: the domestic leader

The leading Irish business-data house, though its independence went with the 2018 CRIF acquisition.

Founded in Dublin in 1991 and acquired by the Italian CRIF group in 2018, Vision-net holds credit reports and business information on every Irish and UK company, roughly 600,000 Irish companies plus sole traders, with judgments, insolvency and KYB. It is the domestic reference for Irish company data, used across the financial, legal and accountancy sectors. The one thing to note is that it and its sibling SoloCheck both belong to CRIF, so the independent Irish field is narrower than it appears.

Dublin, Ireland · Subscription and per-report · Built on: CRO, Judgments, Insolvency notices

3. SoloCheck: the self-serve check

Cheap, quick Irish company and director lookups, built on the same data as its parent.

SoloCheck offers low-cost, self-serve lookups of Irish company, director and shareholder information, with credit and risk ratings, judgments and insolvency notices, plus a mobile app. Its report data is built and maintained by its parent Vision-net, so it is effectively the SME-friendly front end to the same CRIF-owned file. For a quick, affordable check on an Irish business or director, it is the convenient option.

Dublin, Ireland · Low-cost per-report · Built on: CRO, Vision-net data

4. StubbsGazette: the defaulters' gazette

The historic register of Irish defaulters, and the niche owner of judgments and debt recovery.

First published in 1828, StubbsGazette is Ireland's gazette of defaulters, listing judgments, insolvencies, liquidations and bankruptcies for Ireland and Northern Ireland, alongside credit referencing, compliance and debt recovery. Being named in it damages a business's standing because lenders consult it. Owned by Dun & Bradstreet for years, it has been independent under Business Pro since 2008, and it owns the judgments-and-defaulter niche.

Dublin, Ireland · Subscription and services · Built on: Court judgments, Insolvency notices, CRO

5. Experian Ireland: the regulated-checks bureau

The choice when credit, fraud and Central Bank fitness checks all have to run off one platform.

Experian has served the Irish market for over two decades, offering business credit reports and scores, consumer analytics, marketing data, and decision-analytics and fraud tools, plus public-data and fitness-and-probity checks tied to Central Bank of Ireland requirements. For regulated-sector work, where credit, fraud and compliance checks sit together, it is the natural fit, backed by a global group.

Dublin, Ireland · Quote only · Built on: CRO, Consumer-credit data, Public records

6. Dun & Bradstreet Ireland: the global file

Worth it when Irish entities need to sit inside a worldwide risk and firmographic picture.

Dun & Bradstreet's Irish operation brings the global D&B file to the market: D-U-N-S numbering, private-company financials, risk and credit scores and analytics, and its data even feeds Ireland's official statistics office. Given how many Irish-registered entities are subsidiaries of global groups, the ability to map them into a worldwide corporate structure is a real advantage here. Enterprise-priced and global in outlook.

Dublin, Ireland · Quote only · Built on: CRO, D&B network, Public records

7. Creditsafe Ireland: the real-time option

Real-time Irish credit reports with consistent scoring across other markets, from a Dublin office.

Creditsafe opened its Irish office in 2007 and offers online commercial credit reports, scores, monitoring and B2B prospecting data, with API access, as part of a group covering hundreds of millions of businesses worldwide. Its edge is real-time reporting and consistent scoring across markets, so an Irish check reads the same as a UK or German one. Domestic depth is solid rather than market-leading.

Dublin, Ireland · Subscription, quoted · Built on: CRO, Financial statements, International registers

How Ireland's data market took shape

Ireland's register is old and public, but the multinational economy and a CRIF buyout shaped the commercial layer:

So who is still actually Irish?

The leading domestic name is now Italian-owned, leaving a smaller genuinely Irish field:

Public register, private giants

The Companies Registration Office is a straightforward public register: Irish companies file annual returns and financial statements, you can search it free, and downloading a document costs a small fee, with newer free open data and an API for the basics. For an ordinary Irish company, the register tells you a lot for very little.

The distinctive gap is at the top. Many of the largest Irish-registered entities are the holding and IP companies of US multinationals, and a good number are structured as unlimited companies that do not file public accounts. So on precisely the biggest names, the register can be nearly silent, which is why providers that map corporate structure and multinational ownership earn their place. Check the register here:

• Companies Registration Office : The official register: free company search, a small fee to download filed documents.
• CORE : The CRO's online portal for searching companies and ordering filed documents.
• CRO open data : Newer free open datasets and an API for basic Irish company and officer data.

Four questions before you sign anything

1. Are your targets multinationals that file nothing? If you deal with the big Irish-registered subsidiaries of global groups, remember many are unlimited companies with no public accounts. Favour providers that map corporate structure and global ownership over those that only resell filed accounts.

2. Do you want a genuine second opinion? Vision-net and SoloCheck share a parent in CRIF, so pairing them is not independent. Experian, D&B or Creditsafe give you a separate read on the same businesses.

3. Is judgments and default data the point? For the negative signals, judgments, insolvencies and defaulters, StubbsGazette owns that niche in Ireland, and a general company file will not match it.

4. Do you really need to pay for the register? Basic CRO search is free, and there is now free open data for the basics. If you only need registration facts on ordinary companies, you can start there before buying a bureau product.

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