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Deciding on the best rewards cards depends on what is the most rewarding to you.  Rewards include cash back options, travel points, travel insurance, donations to sports teams, colleges, and charities.

Here are some of top rewards cards in Ireland:

• MBNA’s new Pigsback.com credit card. With 0% APR on balance transfers for 10 months and 2,000 PiggyPoints after your first card purchase, it’s pretty great. The APR isn’t bad either (14.9 % APR when this went into print). As for your reward? You get 1 PiggyPoint for every 2 Euros you spend on card purchases! It really does fair high on my list of best credit card deals in Ireland.
• SonyCard. For every € 1.5 you charge on the card, you receive one “pulsebeat.” You can get stuff free by using your pulsebeats. Sony offers over 600 products available for purchase with pulsebeats.
• Tesco’s Clubcard Credit Card. This card gets you one point for every €4 you spend. Sometimes it’s double points, but bear in mind each point is worth about only around 4cents when you redeem them. You can spend your points at Tesco stores or petrol stations. You can also use the clubcard vouchers as airmiles
• Sainsbury Credit Card. This card gives you two Nectar points for every €1 you spend in Sainsbury (for the first two years you hold the card). When you use the card elsewhere, you get one Nectar point for every €5 you spend. Each nectar point equals 0.5cents. You can use your vouchers at Sainsburys and Argos. You can also use them at certain restaurants, video stores, cinema tickets, and for airplane tickets.
• Play.com credit cards lets you earn points for spending at play.com and elsewhere. You get two playpoints for each €1 you spend at play.com. If you use your card elsewhere, you receive one playpoint for each €1. Five hundred playpoints equal €5. You can redeem your points at Play.com where you can buy DVDs, music, games, books, computers, electronics, and gadgets.
• Ulster Bank credit cards also offer YourPoints. But you only receive one point for every € 1 you spend. You can use YourPoints to make travel arrangements and you can get shopping vouchers for them.