Originally Posted by
stifle
Imagining. Amex offers the International Euro Card to Irish residents. I had one myself whilst living there, back in and around 2009. Reward cards are not offered in Ireland because there is approximately zero competition for banking services so no incentive for banks to offer them.
Which is fine when it comes to bank services, but one would imagine that the likes of MBNA and Amex would want to ply their trade in Ireland. Although Amex does notionally offer a card to Irish citizens, I have never seen it advertised, no sign-up bonuses etc.
www.americanexpress.com/ie doesn't exist as a webiste (unlike most other european derivatives) and merely brings you to the generic icc euro/dollar cards.
I remembered where I picked up on the discussion about legislation.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showp...96&postcount=3
It is of course quite possible that the poster was totally wrong.