Irish MCP Server

Irish legislation via MCP — full-text search across statutes and provisions

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What is the Irish MCP server?

If you already use Irish, the irish mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. Irish legislation via MCP — full-text search across statutes and provisions.

What the server does

First request opens an OAuth signup flow (setup details: ansvar.eu/docs/quickstart). After signup, your client is bound to your account; tier (free / premium / team / company) determines fan-out, quota, and which downstream MCPs are reachable.

We build AI-accelerated compliance and legal research tools for the European market. This MCP server started as our internal reference tool for Irish law -- turns out everyone building for the Irish and EU markets has the same research frustrations.

  • A solicitor or barrister validating citations in a brief or contract
  • A compliance officer checking if a statute is still in force or amended
  • A legal tech developer building tools on Irish law
  • A researcher tracing legislative provisions across 3,972 statutes

Installation

The server ships on npm as @anthropic/mcp-inspector, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.

Available tools

The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:

  • search_legislation — FTS5 full-text search across 91,528 provisions with BM25 ranking
  • get_provision — Retrieve specific provision by Act short title + section number
  • validate_citation — Validate citation against database -- zero-hallucination check
  • build_legal_stance — Aggregate citations from multiple Acts for a legal topic
  • format_citation — Format citations per Irish conventions (full/short/pinpoint)
  • check_currency — Check if statute is in force, amended, or repealed
  • list_sources — List all available statutes with metadata and data provenance
  • about — Server info, capabilities, dataset statistics, and coverage summary
  • get_eu_basis — Get EU directives/regulations that underpin an Irish statute
  • get_irish_implementations — Find Irish laws implementing a specific EU act
  • search_eu_implementations — Search EU documents with Irish implementation counts
  • get_provision_eu_basis — Get EU law references for a specific provision

Worth knowing first

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • With 14 tools registered it takes up a noticeable share of the context window; turn it off in projects that never touch Irish.
  • Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

Where it fits

This sits in the database access group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Irish's toolset — search_legislation, get_provision, validate_citation and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by eu.ansvar; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

This entry was verified against Irish's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
search_legislationFTS5 full-text search across 91,528 provisions with BM25 ranking
get_provisionRetrieve specific provision by Act short title + section number
validate_citationValidate citation against database -- zero-hallucination check
build_legal_stanceAggregate citations from multiple Acts for a legal topic
format_citationFormat citations per Irish conventions (full/short/pinpoint)
check_currencyCheck if statute is in force, amended, or repealed
list_sourcesList all available statutes with metadata and data provenance
aboutServer info, capabilities, dataset statistics, and coverage summary
get_eu_basisGet EU directives/regulations that underpin an Irish statute
get_irish_implementationsFind Irish laws implementing a specific EU act
search_eu_implementationsSearch EU documents with Irish implementation counts
get_provision_eu_basisGet EU law references for a specific provision
validate_eu_complianceCheck implementation status of Irish statutes against EU directives
ConnectFirst request opens an OAuth signup flow (setup details: [ansvar.eu/docs/quickstart](https://ansvar.eu/docs/quickstart)). After signup, your client is bound to your account; tier (free / premium / team / company) determi

How to install the Irish MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "irish-law": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@anthropic/mcp-inspector"]
    }
  }
}

Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.

Example prompts to try

  • Use Irish to search legislation.
  • Use Irish to get provision.
  • Use Irish to validate citation.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Irish to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 14 tools (search_legislation, get_provision, validate_citation, and more) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Irish directly.