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The European Commission has approved amendments to Ireland’s digital games tax credit, allowing qualifying expenditure incurred after the initial public release of a game to benefit from the existing 32% corporation tax credit. The approval, adopted on 28 August 2026 in State Aid Case SA.122392, expands the scope of Section 481A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 and brings the Irish incentive closer to the production models used by modern games studios. The amendment is particularly significant for live-service and games-as-a-service businesses. Unlike traditional games, which may be...

On 6 August 2026, Ireland’s independent media regulator, (Coimisiún na Meán), published its revised Media Pluralism Policy. The Broadcasting Act 2009, as amended by the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022, makes the Commission responsible for ensuring that broadcasting and audiovisual on-demand media services available in Ireland are open, inclusive, pluralistic, and serve the needs of the people of Ireland. The Policy recognises that media pluralism depends not only on the entities who own and control media, but also on the range of services available, the diversity...

On 11 and 16 October 2025, Comisiún na Meán (the Commission), the Irish media regulator, made decisions determining that WhatsApp Ireland Ltd. (in respect of the service Channels) and Pinterest Europe Ltd. are "exposed to terrorist content". The Commission is the Irish competent national authority under Regulation (EU) 2021/784 on addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online (the Terrorist Content Online Regulation). In this role, it is responsible for overseeing the implementation of specific measures required to be taken under Article 5 of the Terrorist...

On 23 May 2025, the Irish national media regulatory authority, Coimisiún na Meán (the Media Commission) de-designated Reddit as a video-sharing platform (VSP) service. The de-designation does not come as an indication that the initial designation of the service was incorrect, but due to the fact that service provider of Reddit is no longer under the jurisdiction of Ireland, and therefore not subject to the Media Commission’s online safety codes. Reddit had been designated as a VSP services at the end of 2023, when the Media Commission issued a series of notices to services...

On 2 May 2025, the Irish Data Protection Commission released a decision finding that TikTok infringed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in relation to the transfer of personal data of its users in the European Economic Area (EEA) to China. The Irish Data Protection Commission concluded that the transfers violated the GDPR’s requirements for cross-border data transfers and its transparency obligation. Personal data may be transferred to countries outside the EEA if those countries ensure an adequate level of data protection, either through a European Commission “adequacy...