A1RO — Irish employment tools MCP Server

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A1RO — Irish employment tools is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Irish temp worker cost, public holiday pay and holidays, and SafeHandle certificate checks.

Uptime history 6 days of history · worst day 71%

6 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

216 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

A1RO — Irish employment tools does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 90.2% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add a1ro --transport http https://a1ro.ie/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://a1ro.ie/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.a1ro]
url = "https://a1ro.ie/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "a1ro": {
      "url": "https://a1ro.ie/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "a1ro": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://a1ro.ie/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

about

about_a1ro

What A1RO's products do and cost: A1ROTime (timesheets, payroll calculation and invoicing for staffing agencies), A1ROMatch, A1ROHire, SafeHandle (online manual handling training) and the AI screening bot.

irish

irish_public_holidays

List Ireland's public holidays for 2026, 2027 or 2028, or the next upcoming ones.

public

public_holiday_pay_ireland

Check whether a full-time, part-time or casual worker in Ireland is entitled to a public holiday and what they are owed (the 40-hours-in-5-weeks rule, a day's pay, or one fifth of weekly pay).

safehandle

check_safehandle_certificate

Check whether a SafeHandle manual handling certificate (issued by A1RO under S.I. No. 299 of 2007) is valid, using the certificate number and the holder's surname. Returns valid, expired or not found, with issue and expiry dates. Never returns the holder's name.

temp

temp_worker_cost_ireland

Work out what a temp or agency worker really costs an employer in Ireland per week and per hour: pay, holiday pay accrual, employer PRSI (correct band and rate for the date), MyFutureFund auto-enrolment, optional construction CWPS, and the margin if a client charge rate is given.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://a1ro.ie/mcp	streamable-http	answering	318 ms	7 min ago

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A1RO — Irish employment tools — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can A1RO — Irish employment tools do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: about_a1ro, check_safehandle_certificate, irish_public_holidays, public_holiday_pay_ireland, temp_worker_cost_ireland. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is A1RO — Irish employment tools working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 216 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect A1RO — Irish employment tools?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does A1RO — Irish employment tools need an API key?

No. A1RO — Irish employment tools completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is A1RO — Irish employment tools?

It answers our handshake in 216 ms on average, which is faster than 67% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.