MCP Setup

What you get

Five MCP tools exposing all five Irish public data sources:

  • irish_tenders_search
  • irish_grants_search
  • irish_planning_search
  • irish_cro_search
  • irish_rtb_search

Available now: local / stdio

Run the MCP server locally, pointed at our API-issued credentials (or your own Postgres mirror if you're self-hosting). Add to claude_desktop_config.json (Claude Desktop) or your MCP client config (Cursor, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ireland-mcp": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/mcp-server/dist/index.js"],
      "env": { "DATABASE_URL": "postgresql://..." }
    }
  }
}

Restart your client. The 5 tools appear under the 🔌 / MCP icon.

Coming soon: hosted SSE endpoint

A hosted https://openireland.dev/mcp/sse?key=YOUR_API_KEY transport (no local process required) is planned but not live yet — use the REST API directly (see /docs) or the local stdio setup above in the meantime.