This surprises me. I understand that the market would be limited, but there would be a certain demand from defined benefit pension schemes (esp. those winding up) and in connection with RACs, so the infrastructure for pricing and administering annuity contracts must be in place. I'm puzzled as to why insurers would turn away the business.If what you are thinking of is a purchase life annuity, where you give an insurance company a lump of money and they pay an annuity for the rest of your/ their life, they are not available in Ireland.
To be clear. where I do not wish a beneficiary of part of my estate to receive hard cash, but would have a preference to set up pension or annuity when that person reaches a certain age. Therefore, the setting up would happen at my death (I assume by executor) but the payouts would not be immediate.