Accepting credit cards in ireland via paypal without paypal account

[POD1]

I have paypal set up on my website. Beside it it says you can pay with your credit card with out being a paypal member.

However I am testing this and when I try to pay with cc without signing into paypal it will not let me.

I change the country to ireland but it automatically changes the country back to Us therefore preventing me from completing the cc payment?

Anybody else experience this, anybody know the solution?

I am small and start up so do not want full merchant account.

Does paypal only provide this payment method in US?

 

[MelF]

ASFAIK customers do have to set up a paypal account to pay via paypal. You could try worldpay http://www.worldpay.ie (www.worldpay.ie) Not as expensive as the bank's merchant accounts.
No affiliation to the company by the way, just did a quick google.