Irish Life Reviews 

I really valued Irish Life as a pension provider when I was a customer. After 14 years I had to move my pension when I left my employer. Irish Life did two disappointing things -

1) They transferred my pension to the new company without ever writing to me - I logged into the Irish Life portal and saw its value was zero and nearly had a heart attack! I wondered if the new company was scamming me. All IL had to do was to email or write to me IN ADVANCE of transferring the money out

2) They shut off access to their portal as soon as my money was moved, so I couldn't even log in to see an audit history of them moving my money to the new company. And I couldn't see the value of my pension when it left IL and compare it with the new company's policy value, to check for things like hidden fees.

These steps sent me a clear message - we don't care that you were our customer for all those years. You're gone now!

I’ve been paying income protection to Irish Life since 2021. When I became medically unfit to work in September 2024, I submitted all documents and kept them informed by email and phone multiple times — explaining that I was out of work and that my wife is 8 months pregnant.

Despite this, they ignored my situation, gave only generic template responses, delayed payment for over 7 months, and then sent it to a bank account I couldn’t access, even though I had clearly provided my correct details.

They also cancelled my policy when I couldn’t afford payments — despite telling me I wouldn’t need to pay while claiming. Irish Life completely failed us at a time of serious need.

Avoid this company at all costs — their actions were careless, unprofessional, and harmful. No one should be treated like this during one of the most difficult times in their life.

The customer support literally copy and paste the answer from the policy and are completely uncapable of explaining their own cover. It's shocking really, when you think that they are professionals that should inform people on such delicate matters.

Terrible company, only interested in taking money from the customer.
Had surgery last October 24. Scheduled second part of operation before Christmas. Got a letter to say payments to hospital paused. Not in the lest bit interested in care for their members. Now I have half surgery completed and hospital calling every week looking to get paid
If you want to feel stressed and disillusioned then go with Irish Life.
Read the trustpilot reviews. Make up your own mind.

Absolutely shocking and stressful company to deal with

I have called and emailed over the last few days a simple question before i have my procedure.

Not one person so far can explain do i have to pay or not "Subject to €2000 co-payment on orthopaedic procedures"

There excellent at copy and paste and reading from there own website ,

Customer service is challenging and inexperienced ,
No one available at the weekend

As of today still no Actual answer

Like previously mentioned excess charges are very confusing ,

All i have done is pay out €100's and will be lucky to get a 1/3 back due to complex T&C's

The irony is if i could wait and went public everything would be free

Terrible. Digital doctors booked up all the time. Tried to make multiple claims but as there is one still in progress it won’t let me upload more claims I imagine to not truly reflect how long it takes them to process claims, just a con to scew their completion timeframes. Would not recommend.

Horrific company, I was forced to sign up with these COWBOYS due it supplied for by my company, Even though my company is paying my full monthly fees, they have cancelled my membership on 3
occasions in less than 4 months, this leads to me having take time out of my busy day to rectify the issue (which is the same every time). I would advise anyone looking for private health insurance to look at ANY other option than this negligent bunch of amateurs.

My experience making a claim has been horrible and i will never recommend this company to anyone. Just follow my lead at the top for a smooth renew amazing experience.

Absolutely dreadful to deal with when you want to submit a claim, bill cover (2 year) is a scam…..will not pay out for the term and will make your personal situation a nightmare! Switched over two policies to competitor with no regrets!

Rang Digital doctors had to wait ages to get through. Today is Wednesday close to 3pm, next available appointment appointment available is 7am Friday morning. Waste of time for working parents. Will probably have to take day off work to go to our own GP

cant find a good thing to say -
we are only with this health insurance because its part of a work package benefit -failling to see the benefit really, it takes forever to log in, it takes forever to load and submit receipts as the website keeps crashing - feel like Im back in the 90's waiting for dial up to the internet :/
very annoying and unhelpful to deal with on the phone too

I transferred funds from old pension and cant get that in my new irish life pension, there is always some issue, some papers missing or someone didnt do what he was supposed to do.
Now they are looking for a payslip from 20 years ago, joke.
Its like they do everything to delay and hoping that you will forget

The worst health insurance that I had in my life I cannot believe how bad is this company, they do not care at all about you.
Everything that I have requested was refused, they do not care about their customers.
Irish life no words for you, just so disappointed.

First Pension payment - beware. Irish Life will happily use Emergency Tax to remove HALF of your annual pension, without warning you or suggesting you contact Revenue to transfer your tax credits over to your pension. I was told this is the normal process - how utterly incompetent and lazy is that for a pension company. An appalling customer experience - I now need to contact Revenue for a refund.

Worst company I've ever taken out in the last 10years!Ask to change my policy and weren't helpful one bit!Going for a mortgage in 3months and wanted to change a few thing's with policy and wouldn't help!10years with them and didn't even get a cent back!What a bad company.Seriously thinking of bringing them to court now!

I've been a customer for more than a year, now I tried to use it with the online doctor and it's not available so I'm paying for nothing, I'm trying to cancel my policy because they don't meet the conditions we have and I have to pay almost 300€ more for cancelling the policy.... for me in my opinion they're no more than scamers and thieves, also to cancel the policy they had me more than one hour on the phone, the worst health care service I've ever had

Re, health insurance with Irish life. Impossible to speak to anyone if any issues, if you do get someone, they can't help. App does not work. Cannot make any claims. No service. Leaving as soon as my contract is up.

Incredibly bad customer service - make it impossible to stop your auto renewal. I rang to cancel my policy due for renewal next month. They accepted the cancellation, however i kept getting emails saying thank you for renewing so i rang again to confirm cancellation. They said ‘oh sorry there has been an error your cancellation is on file ignore the emails.’ More emails came . I rang again today and they informed me that they see i canceled with them but ‘it never went through’ and now i am being charged the direct debit- so essentially taking money illegally out of my account, and they said it’s too late to stop the DD. They noted they will refund me but at the end of the day I suffer as i have to go without said money for a period.

No trust with services that make it that hard to cancel renewals.
I think this is very unfair- especially if i was elderly or short on money. Any service that makes it this hard to cancel a service ( with no contract in place) is shady in my books

Avoid this Company at all costs. Customer service is horrendous, and if you are dealing with someone all you get is out of office
If you have a genuine question on your pension, or want to add money to it, forget it

Save yourself the hassel research other companies, no wonder the reviews are so bad

in march my wife was on a trolley in tallaght i had a policy with irish life health covering the beacon clinic i rang irish life a requested that she be moved to the beacon clinic they refused as she was receiving treatment in tallaght hospital even though she was on a trolley in the corridoor my wife has since passed away she never did get to the beacon clinic