Iarnród Éireann Travellers Can Now Pay with PayPal

Iarnród Éireann has introduced PayPal as a payment option at checkout on their website and app, giving millions of travellers in Ireland and overseas a simple and secure way to purchase rail tickets. Customers can purchase tickets directly from their PayPal account using either their PayPal balance, or other funding source.

Iarnród Éireann is one of Ireland’s preferred transport providers, carrying over 55 million passengers in 2025.^[1] By enabling PayPal on their website and app, the company is adding another convenient payment option for customers worldwide to book tickets, when travelling with Iarnród Éireann.

“Travellers expect payments they know and trust, wherever they book,” said Jonas Breding, General Manager, PayPal Northern Europe. “The early results of our cooperation show clear international demand, with more than 20 percent of Iarnród Éireann transactions via PayPal coming from outside Ireland, with a significant share of them from the United States.”^[2]

“Our priority is to make booking rail travel easy to buy, easy to use, and as accessible as possible,” said Keith Faherty, Head of Digital Channels at Iarnród Éireann. “By adding PayPal to our supported payment methods, we are giving our customers what they want – greater choice and reassurance at checkout – making the first step of their journey even easier and more convenient, wherever they are travelling from.”

PayPal’s cooperation with Iarnród Éireann marks another step in strengthening the company’s presence in Ireland’s travel sector and reinforces its long-term commitment to the Irish market. PayPal has operated in Ireland since 2003, with Dublin being home to one of its largest European hubs

^[1] National Transport Authority PSO passenger journeys report 2025

^[2] PayPal internal transactions data, January 26, 2026 – February 24, 2026