No; your personalised TFI Leap Card is unique to you. Only the person whose name & photo is printed on the card, can use it. If someone else uses your personalised TFI Leap Card, they may be fined & have the card confiscated.
New Leap zonal fares for Dublin and surrounding Commuter Areas came into effect April 28th 2025. Features of the new fare structure include:
Tickets can also be purchased for:
Many TaxSaver tickets can now be loaded onto Adult Personalised TFI Leap Cards. These include monthly and annual tickets for Transport for Ireland services (operated by Bus Éireann, Dublin Bus, Go-Ahead Ireland, Iarnród Éireann and Luas) as well as commercial operators like Ashbourne Connect, Collins Coaches, Matthews.ie, Swords Express and Wexford Bus. These tickets are ordered through your employer.
No; your personalised TFI Leap Card is unique to you. Only the person whose name & photo is printed on the card, can use it. If someone else uses your personalised TFI Leap Card, they may be fined & have the card confiscated.
Validators are programmed to check if your card has a valid ticket for the applicable service first. If there is a valid ticket on the card, it simply validates and no Travel Credit is deducted. If there is no valid ticket for the service, the Validator will use Travel Credit instead.
The replacement process currently varies depending on your ticket type. For more information on replacing a lost card, please visit TaxSaver TFI Leap Card.
No; tax savings are only applicable to the TaxSaver tickets you buy for your card through your employer.
Any TaxSaver ticket renewals, or tickets bought online but not yet loaded onto your TFI Leap Card, can be viewed from the Card Overview screen of your LeapCard.ie account.
Any travel credit top-ups that have not yet been collected & loaded onto your TFI Leap Card, can be viewed from the Card Overview screen of your LeapCard.ie account.
Yes, your ticket has simply been loaded onto a TFI Leap Card, so your tax benefits are unchanged.
Yes, your TaxSaver TFI Leap Card can be topped up with Travel Credit or Tickets, at over 2,000 shops nationwide, as well as at all Luas stops & DART/Commuter Rail stations. You may wish to do this if you want to travel on services where your TaxSaver ticket is not valid.
It depends on when your employer processed your ticket order. Tickets can usually be loaded onto your card towards the end of the month for the next month/years travel. For example, a ticket that is valid for February would normally be ready to load at the end of January.
