Restricted Items to Ireland include:

• Powdered milk for babies/food for children and special medical food (including pet food) that need to be refrigerated prior to use
• Coats, fur and leather shoes made of protected animals
• Alcohol - An inventory must detail exact number and size of bottles, exact alcoholic strength in percent and value of each bottle
• Carbon paper, except for type writer carbon paper that must be described on the customs declaration as follows 'Typewriter carbon paper coated with wax and containing no oxidizable or fatty substances'
• Importation of teas is subject to certain customs regulations
• Fruit/vegetables and other food stuffs
• Plants and seeds and certain pharmaceutical products are subject to special regulations.

The following are subject to quota regulations and require an import licence:

• Boots and shoes
• Brushes
• Electrical lamp bulbs
• Screws
• Tapered thread
• Felt hats and caps
• Brushes and mops
• Wheaten flour and any commodity or product of wheat
• Rubber proof wearing apparel
• Sparking plugs and component parts
• Silk and artificial silk hose and certain woven fabrics

Prohibited Items to Ireland include:

• Protected animal species i.e. Ivory, Tortoise Shell, Coral, Reptile skin
• Wood from the Amazonian forests
• Arms and weapons
• Hay/Straw including articles made of straw
• Human remains
• Live plants or animals
• Peat moss litter except under licence
• Prison made goods
• Safety fuses
• Fireworks
• Tobacco
• Cigars or Cigarettes packed with other articles
• Cut and compressed/sweetened or adulterated tobacco