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Irish TV in UK

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  • 13-08-2008 2:12pm
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    setanta5
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    I moved to Glasgow last year for work and sometimes miss out on things like sports etc. which are not picked up by SKY sports or UK channels.

    I was wondering, if i got a freesat or DTT would i be able to access Irish channels on my TV?

    Otherwise can anyone suggest alternative methods for me to get RTE etc in Glasgow?


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    Jonathan
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    1. Get some one living in ireland to use a slingbox to stream rte over to you
    2. Find an irish proxy so you can watch rte.ie
    3. Get an irish viewing card for sky


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    Scottish paddy
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    Well RTÉ International starts on Freesat sometime before 17/03/09, but it's unlikely that it will carry much sport (rights issues) although you may get "The road to Croker" etc. You could get a $ky card and then tell them you have moved to Northern Ireland, benefits are you are billed in £ you get BBC's ITV's and RTE's. But as jmccrohan says if you want everything including soccer then its got to be a RoI $KY card unfortunately.


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    bf1
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    jmccrohan wrote: »
    1. Find an irish proxy so you can watch rte.ie

    If anyone knows one that works, could you PM me :)

    Moving to Wales shortly so it would be handy for watching the Panel ect. :)
    Thanks
    bf1


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    Jonathan
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    bf1 wrote: »
    If anyone knows one that works, could you PM me :)

    Moving to Wales shortly so it would be handy for watching the Panel ect. :)
    Thanks
    bf1
    Find a student in TCD that is willing to share their login details.

    TCD have a connection in excess of 1 Gbps so the connection would be more or less seamless.

    All irish colleges have gigabit connections. I'm just not sure which ones operate proxies tho.


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    bf1
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    Ah ya, had that below in WIT :) Don't see how I could use it as a proxy though.. as we only used our login for exam timetables and accessing notes posted by lecturers..


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    Jonathan
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    bf1 wrote: »
    Ah ya, had that below in WIT :) Don't see how I could use it as a proxy though.. as we only used our login for exam timetables and accessing notes posted by lecturers..

    Thats cause you are just logging into the normal wit website, not a proxy. A proxy is nothing like the normal website login.


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    watty
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    Moved to Satellite, because even Iron Brew and Fried Mars Bars won't help to pickup terrestrial Irish TV in Scotland.


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    Jonathan
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    watty wrote: »
    Moved to Satellite, because even Iron Brew and Fried Mars Bars won't help to pickup terrestrial Irish TV in Scotland.
    Iron Brew and Fried Mars Bars :confused:


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    Mossy Monk
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    Those crazy Scottish folks and their crazy diet.


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    jaggiebunnet
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    watty wrote: »
    Moved to Satellite, because even Iron Brew and Fried Mars Bars won't help to pickup terrestrial Irish TV in Scotland.


    Thats "Irn Bru" watty ;)

    And as for the deep fried mars bar fallacy....apparently there is more sold in Ireland than in Scotland - mind you I have never found them on sale in Scotland...although they were indeed created in Dundee or something....

    Anyway, sorry for the irrelevance OP :)


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    jaggiebunnet
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    setanta5 wrote: »
    I moved to Glasgow last year for work and sometimes miss out on things like sports etc. which are not picked up by SKY sports or UK channels.

    I was wondering, if i got a freesat or DTT would i be able to access Irish channels on my TV?

    Otherwise can anyone suggest alternative methods for me to get RTE etc in Glasgow?

    which sports do you miss - hurling and GAA are on setanta in the uk are they not? There is a couple of sports bars in Glasgow that would show them if so.


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    culabula
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    jmccrohan wrote: »
    Iron Brew and Fried Mars Bars :confused:

    He means Irn Bru, of course.


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    watty
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    jaggiebunnet wrote: »
    Thats "Irn Bru" watty ;)

    And as for the deep fried mars bar fallacy....apparently there is more sold in Ireland than in Scotland - mind you I have never found them on sale in Scotland...although they were indeed created in Dundee or something....

    Anyway, sorry for the irrelevance OP :)

    Yes.. but didn't think our Southern Brethern and Sistern could read the Northern Spelling. I had Irn Bru regular as a kid and it does faintly taste of Girders. Never had the Fried Mars Bar. I believe despised in Inverness and Edinburgh. The confection is likely mostly in Glasgow and Belfast. I expect more in Belfast these days, as desert for a greasy Ulster fry tucked into a take out fried Soda.


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    jaggiebunnet
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    watty wrote: »
    Yes.. but didn't think our Southern Brethern and Sistern could read the Northern Spelling. I had Irn Bru regular as a kid and it does faintly taste of Girders. Never had the Fried Mars Bar. I believe despised in Inverness and Edinburgh. The confection is likely mostly in Glasgow and Belfast. I expect more in Belfast these days, as desert for a greasy Ulster fry tucked into a take out fried Soda.

    I'm a Glasgow boy and never saw them on sale there (thankfully for my waist line - but i do miss my deep fried pizzas!)...they are on sale in Scotland still though, Aberdeen and Dundee I think - students love em apparently. I managed to get glass bottles of the bru in Sydney but sadly all I can get here is the plastic stuff which is not the same, again thankfully for my waistline!

    There was a special on sale a while back, a foot long sausage, wrapped in donner kebab meat and battered and deep fried...it had something like 1500 calories in it and was sold with a health warning...don't think it is still on sale though :)

    Again - sorry OP!!


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    Jonathan
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    Ye have the whole forum to yourselves :P
    http://www.boards.org.uk/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=85


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    r3nu4l
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    jmccrohan wrote: »
    Ye have the whole forum to yourselves :P
    http://www.boards.org.uk/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=85

    Aye, there's only 7 threads there, one of which is the charter and another that says "It's awful quiet in here!"

    C'mon you ex-pats and UK folk, start posting on baords.org.uk, we don't bite you know and we have a number of regular posters. We need more people from outside the M25 London area though!! :)

    Oh yeah, I can't wait for RTÉ International to start broadcasting. I watch a lot of RTÉ shows on the web and listen to RTÉ Radio 1 a bit too.


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