Hurt in Ireland.
What is the deadline, what does the Board do, and what is it worth?
The Injuries Resolution Board’s process as dates, the two-year clock and the one-month letter, and the Personal Injuries Guidelines’ bracket for an injury drawn to scale, in seven free tools and 49 guides. Every fact cited to a dated official source, and nothing you type into a tool leaves your browser.
Not the Board. InjuryWise is independent. Applications are made to the Injuries Resolution Board at injuries.ie; we never make or submit a claim. The Board’s own site is injuries.ie.
The two-year clock
Two years from the accident or the later date of knowledge; one month for the letter; paused while the Board has the claim. Enter a date to see yours. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
(d) Minor neck injuries, (iii) Where a substantial recovery is made within six months: €500 to €3,000 on a neck-injury scale that runs to €300,000. The Guidelines give a bracket and leave the point within it to the Board or the court. No calculator can give a figure for your claim; this site does not pretend to.
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Not sure what you need? Say what happened.
One tap opens the first-week checklist for that situation, with the guide to read beside it. From there the site shows the date that matters, what the Board does, and what the Guidelines say. Nothing you choose is sent anywhere.
- Hurt on the roadDriver, passenger, pedestrian, cyclist or e-scooter riderThe guide
- Hurt at workOn the premises, on site, or driving for workThe guide
- A fall in a shop, pub or gymThe occupier's duty, the accident book, the CCTVThe guide
- A fall on a footpath or potholeThe council, the spot, the date it was on noticeThe guide
- A dog biteThe owner's strict liability, the dog wardenThe guide
- An assaultThe Gardaí, the Criminal Injuries schemeThe guide
- Harm during treatmentNot the Board, and a different clockThe guide
What is the deadline?
Two years, one month, and the pause while the Board has the claim
Your own dates from the Acts, drawn on the clock.
What does the Board do?
The process as dates, and what accepting or rejecting means
The Board's own periods and figures, dated. Never a recommendation.
What is it worth?
The Guidelines' bracket, drawn to scale, and what can be vouched
The bracket for an injury described like this, never your award.
The Board in 2025
Assessment takes about 9 months from the respondent’s consent and mediation about 3, on the Board’s own figures. The Central Bank’s data says the route a person takes changes the time by years and the cost by tens of thousands of euro. The tools give the dates and the brackets; the guides say what each step means and when a solicitor is the right next step.
The figures register, year by year and the Board explained on one page.
The Board’s own figures, 2025
From the Annual Report and the Award Values Report, published July 2026
| Applications | 20,077 |
| Change on 2024, and on 2019 | -4%, -35% |
| Awards issued | 10,032 |
| Median award | €14,020 |
| Assessments accepted | 47% |
| Mediations agreed, in about 3 months | 54% |
| Time to assess, from the respondent’s consent | about 9 months |
Applications, awards, the total, the median, the acceptance and consent rates, the mediation figures and the savings are from the Board's own release. The average award and the highest award's category are from the Law Society Gazette's and the Irish Times' reports of the Annual Report (8 July 2026); the release itself says the highest award exceeded €900,000.
Nine chapters and 49 guides, from the first week to a claim against you
- 1The first weekWhat to do after a car accident, an accident at work, a fall in a shop or on a footpath, a dog bite, or an e-scooter or bicycle collision: the record, the report, the letter, what not to sign.6 guides
- 2The Board, step by stepHow the Injuries Resolution Board works from the form to the Order to Pay: the fee, the medical report, the respondent's 90 days, the nine months, the 28 days, mediation, and claiming without a solicitor.10 guides
- 3The clockThe two-year limit and the date of knowledge, the one-month letter, children, capacity and late claims, and how a Board application pauses the clock.4 guides
- 4What an injury is worthThe Personal Injuries Guidelines explained and their brackets for whiplash, back, psychiatric, scarring and limb injuries; the Board's own figures; special damages; the Book of Quantum and the 16.7% increase that is not in force.9 guides
- 5Court, costs and settlementWhat rejecting an assessment means, which court, what a case costs and who pays, solicitor fees and section 149, an insurer's direct offer, and the Central Bank's channel figures.6 guides
- 6WorkAccident at work: the employer's duty, the HSA and your evidence; Injury Benefit and Disablement Benefit; repetitive strain, hearing loss and stress; claiming against your employer and the protections.4 guides
- 7RoadAn uninsured or untraced driver and the MIBI; passengers, pedestrians and cyclists; the Garda report and the accident report form; your insurer, the other insurer, and what to say.4 guides
- 8Other routesThe Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme after the 2026 changes, medical negligence (not the Board, a different clock), and fatal accidents and dependants' claims.3 guides
- 9A claim has been made against meThe Formal Notice, the 90 days and the respondent charge; shops, landlords, employers and dog owners: insurance, evidence and what not to say; exaggerated and false claims under section 26.3 guides
Board config version 2026-10, checked 14 October 2026; Guidelines edition 2021, checked 14 October 2026; figures checked 14 October 2026. Every rule is traceable to a source: Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act 2003, revised (Law Reform Commission), 2003 Act s.13: notice to respondent, 2003 Act s.30 and s.31: acceptance of an assessment, 2003 Act s.49: time for an assessment, Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Act 1991, s.3, revised, Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Act 1991, s.2 (date of knowledge), revised, Judicial Council, Personal Injuries Guidelines (6 March 2021), and all sources.