There is no single national rule. Irish universities generally leave the decision to the module, the assessment or the programme, and expect you to declare any use. Below is what the institutions publish (checked October 2026), with links, and what that means in practice.
See how Esmond worksLook in your module or programme handbook and the assignment brief first. If they do not say, ask your supervisor or module coordinator before you use any AI tool, and keep a record of what you used and how. At some institutions, if nothing is said, no use is allowed.
Several of the institutions below (among them UL, Maynooth, RCSI, Griffith College and the University of Galway) state that unauthorised use of generative AI is an academic integrity issue.
The Higher Education Authority published a national policy framework on generative AI in teaching and learning in December 2025. Its first principle is academic integrity, transparency and accountability. The National Academic Integrity Network, facilitated by QQI, published guidelines on generative AI for educators in 2023, written to be shared and discussed with students. Neither sets one rule for every student: institutions and modules decide.
Summaries below are paraphrased from the official pages listed under Sources. Where we have more detail, the institution has its own page.
Where AI use is allowed, most of these institutions ask you to say so. Read how to declare AI use in your dissertation for what the published guidance asks for. Separately, Irish law makes it an offence to provide or advertise services that do assessed work in a student's place: see contract cheating and the law in Ireland.
Most guidance draws the line at whether the work you submit is your own. Esmond evaluates text you wrote and does not write any for you. That does not automatically make it allowed: it is still an AI tool, and some modules restrict any AI use.
Be straight with yourself: Esmond works with language models, so using it is a form of AI use. Rules on AI differ per university, programme, module and assignment. Check your module or programme handbook before you upload, and if it is unclear, ask your supervisor or module coordinator and declare the use if your institution asks you to.
This page summarises what the institution publishes, with links to the source. It is not legal advice and not a ruling on your assignment: what your programme, module or supervisor sets always comes first.
No. National bodies set principles, but universities, and often individual modules, decide what is allowed.
Many institutions ask for a declaration or acknowledgement when AI use is allowed. Your module handbook or supervisor tells you how.
No. Esmond is an independent service. No institution named here knows, approves or recommends it.
Official pages, checked October 2026. Institutions update these pages regularly, so read the full text at the source.
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