500 Casino About Us
One writer, a Dublin desk, and a set of rules about what goes on a page. If you want to know how far to trust anything else on this site, this is the page that tells you.
The short answer
This is an independent guide to 500 Casino for players in Ireland, written by Niamh Kearney from Dublin. Cashier figures are checked against the live flow, legal points against the statute and the regulator. Every page carries published, updated and fact-checked dates. The site earns from affiliate links, which is stated here rather than buried, and it is not the operator — for anything touching your account, go to them.
Who writes this
Niamh Kearney
Payments & Regulation Editor · 500 Casino Ireland review desk
Nine years covering online gambling from Dublin, most of it spent on the boring half: cashier limits, verification queues and the small print in bonus terms. Reads the Gambling Regulation Act 2024 the way other people read match reports.
Writing about online gambling since 2017. Covers payments, verification, bonus terms and Irish gambling regulation.
One author covers this whole domain. That is a deliberate constraint rather than a limitation of budget: it means the name on a byline is the person who actually checked the claim, and there is nobody to hide behind when a page turns out to be wrong. If you read three pages here and find three different tones and two contradictory numbers, that is a bug and we would like to hear about it.
The beat is narrow on purpose. Payments, verification, bonus terms and the Irish regulatory picture — the parts of an online casino account that are boring right up until they cost you a weekend. We do not review slots we have not opened and we do not publish a rating out of five that no method could produce.
How a page gets made
Cashier numbers come from the cashier
Minimums, ceilings, fees and payout windows are read off the live flow, not lifted from a marketing page. When a figure changes, the page changes.
Legal points come from primary sources
The Gambling Regulation Act 2024, the Betting Acts, Revenue material and the regulator's own publications. Never another casino guide, which is how errors propagate in this industry.
Uncertainty is written down, not smoothed over
Where a commencement date is still moving we give a period. Where we could not verify a claim, the page says we could not, and why.
Reader reports are dated and paraphrased
We publish what readers tell us only when it matches what testing showed, with a month and a location attached so you can weigh it.
The three dates at the bottom of every page
Most gambling sites carry one date and refresh it automatically so the page always looks current. That is a lie told in a very small font. We use three, and none of them moves on its own.
| Date | What it means | When it moves |
|---|---|---|
| Published | When the page first went live | Never |
| Updated | When the text last actually changed | On a real edit, not a re-save |
| Fact-checked | When the claims were last re-verified | On every check, even if nothing changed |
A page where updated is old but fact-checked is recent is a good sign, not a stale one: it means someone looked and the facts held. A page where both are old is telling you to check before you rely on it.
What will never appear on this site
- Invented bonus codes. If there is no live code, the page says so — see the no deposit code page, which exists mainly to say no.
- Licence numbers we have not verified. A regulator's register is a checkable thing. Quoting a number nobody looked up is worse than quoting none.
- Precise dates for things that have not been commenced. Irish gambling law is arriving in stages and a confident wrong date spreads fast.
- Big wins presented as typical. A screenshot is not evidence of anything except that a screenshot exists.
- Advice on how much to stake. Not our business, and not a thing a website can responsibly do.
How this site is funded
Affiliate arrangements. If you follow a link from here and open an account, this site may be paid for that. It is the standard model in this corner of the internet and the reason to state it plainly rather than in a line of grey text at the bottom.
What it does not do is decide what a page says. The most-read pages on this site are the ones that tell you a code does not exist, that a VPN will cost you your balance and that a credit card is a bad idea — none of which is what an affiliate model would write if the model were in charge. If a page ever reads like an advertisement, that is a failure and it is worth telling us about.
This is not the operator. We cannot see your account, release a withdrawal, reverse a bonus or lift a restriction. Anything touching your balance goes to 500 Casino support directly, and it will be resolved faster there than anywhere else.
What readers tell us
Paraphrased from messages to the desk, with the month they arrived.
"First site I found that just said there was no code instead of giving me eight that did not work."
"The bit about the gambling toggle in the banking app was the answer. Three weeks of blaming the casino for nothing."
"Flagged a wrong withdrawal window on the payments page. It was changed within a few days and the date at the bottom moved."
If something here is wrong
Casino terms change without announcement, and a page that was right in May can be wrong in August. When that happens we would rather hear it from a reader than find it six months later.
A useful report has three parts: what the page says, what you saw instead, and the date you saw it. That is enough to check and fix. A correction is made in place, the updated date moves, and the fact-checked date moves with it. We do not quietly delete a wrong sentence and pretend it was never there.
What we cannot help with is your account. A pending withdrawal, a voided bonus, a restricted login — all of those belong with the operator's support team, who can see the record. Everything on this site is written from the outside.
About this site
Who writes this site?
One person: Niamh Kearney, Payments & Regulation Editor, working from Dublin. One author covers the whole domain, so the name on the byline is the name that checked the page. There is no rotating pool of writers and no ghost-written filler.
Is this the official 500 Casino website?
No. This is an independent guide covering 500 Casino for players in Ireland. For account issues, disputes or anything touching your balance, go to the operator directly — we cannot see your account and we cannot act on it.
How do you test what you publish?
Cashier limits, minimums and payout timings are checked against the live sign-up and deposit flow rather than copied from a press page. Legal and regulatory points come from primary material — the statute, the regulator, Revenue — not from other casino sites. Where something cannot be verified, the page says so instead of guessing.
How often is a page updated?
Every page carries three dates: published, updated and fact-checked. Published is fixed. Updated moves only when the text actually changes. Fact-checked moves when someone re-verified the claims, even if nothing needed changing. If a page has not been checked recently, the date tells you.
Do you make money from this site?
Yes, through affiliate arrangements when a reader opens an account after following a link. It funds the work and it is the reason to be explicit about it. It does not buy a rating, and it has never been a reason to leave something unflattering off a page.
What will you not publish?
Invented bonus codes, licence numbers we have not seen, precise legal commencement dates that are still moving, and screenshots of wins presented as typical. If the honest answer to a question is no, the page says no.
How do I report something that is wrong?
Tell us what the page says, what you saw instead, and when you saw it. A dated correction is worth more than a complaint, and a specific one gets fixed the same week. Corrections are made in place and the fact-checked date is moved.
Do you offer gambling advice?
No. Nothing here is advice to gamble, and no page tells you what to stake. If gambling has stopped being entertainment, Problem Gambling Ireland and Gamblers Anonymous Ireland are independent of every operator, including this one.