BBC Radio in Dublin

You have two good choices. First, If you have Virgin cable in Dublin, there are analogue BBC FM signals for all BBC channels piped through the cable that can be picked up directly and connected to your FM aerial jack of your radio. This feature has been available in Dublin since 1974 when Virgin Media used to be called RTÉ Relays.

The other choice is picking up BBC radio using these antennas on MW and LW. They boost the signal enormously by just placing them close to the radio and tuning the knob on the antenna. They are passive and don't need batteries or power. The big one is the MW antenna, and the small one is the LW antenna. I have even picked up American and Canadian AM channels using these antennas. You can get them on AliExpress for a few quid. They are awesome.

I think you may be able to get radio 4 on medium wave maybe or just go to the website bbc 4 fm on a phone or pc, tablet , you can listen to bbc 4 live or click on the previous days programs to hear them I used to listen to bbc radio 5 on medium wave before smartphones and apps were available

I think cricket on radio is usually on before 6 pm anyway for obvious reasons

The first four plus Radio Ulster can be picked up loud and clear on FM on the car radios around the north-east (Louth, east Meath).

In some parts of Dublin, Radio 3 can be picked up weakly on 92.0FM , especially when weekend pirate Retro FM is not on, and Radio 4 can be picked up on 96.0FM, battling with weekend pirate ABC 80s in some areas. I think Radio 1 can also sometimes be picked up around 99.7FM.

But the quality of the digital BBC channels from the UPC digital box are very poor indeed, 90 kbps I think. Very hard on the ears, worse than AM.

The analogue BBC FM signals coming from the Virgin cable are far superior.

Full frequency range and no digital artefacts.

Well worth directly hooking up the Virgin cable to your FM receiver.

sure it would also depend what you are feeding it through? a hifi or amplified speakers?

The Apple 4k boxes using radio.net, linked to a TV and then a soundbar / a hifi amp also works great

Looks like you can only get BBC radio in high quality via iPlayer so you need to be in the UK or have a VPN that is not blocked by iPlayer:

You can get BBC radio stations at a lower bit rate via Freesat satellite or through a variety of internet radio apps. I use Replaio Radio on android, which I found good enough I paid for it.

I have an LG smart TV with a freesat tuner so I can get BBC radio stations via the satellite dish or via the internet using the TV's web browser and a site like https://onlineradiobox.com/search?q=BBC

The TV outputs audio to an external 2.1 stereo sound system with a couple of amps, speakers and a subwoofer.

All the main BBC radio stations, including Radio Ulster and the World Service, are available on the Radio Garden app/platform. It also includes a number of local BBC stations.

It seems BBC 5 Live doesn't work on the BBC Sounds App any more, I normally listen to football games on it. Anyone know what happened? It says it's not available in this area but I was able to listen to all matches last season and the Euros.