Telecommunications in Ireland operate in a regulated competitive market that provides customers with a wide array of advanced digital services. This article explores Ireland's telecommunications infrastructure including: fixed and mobile networks, The voice, data and Internet services, cable television, developments in next generation networks and broadcast networks for radio and television.
Licensed radio broadcasting in Ireland is one element of the wider media of Ireland, with 85% of the population listening to a licensed radio broadcasting service on any given day.
Blanchardstown is a large outer suburb of Dublin in the modern county of Fingal, Ireland. Located ten kilometres (6 mi) northwest of Dublin city centre, it has developed since the 1960s from a small village to a point where Greater Blanchardstown is the largest urban area in Fingal.
Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular and relevant to a local, specific audience but is often overlooked by commercial (or) mass-media broadcasters. Community radio stations are operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve. They are generally nonprofit and provide a mechanism for enabling individuals, groups, and communities to tell their own stories, to share experiences and, in a media-rich world, to become creators and contributors of media.
RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, abbreviated RnaG, is an Irish language radio station owned and operated by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). The station is available on FM in Ireland and via satellite and on the Internet. It celebrated 40 years on air on 2 April 2012. The station's main-headquarters are in Casla, County Galway with major studios also in Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal and An Daingean, County Kerry.
The mass media in the Republic of Ireland includes all the media and communications outlets of the Republic.
Near FM 90.3 FM is a BAI-licensed community media project operated by the not-for-profit media co-operative, Near Media Co-operative Society Limited.
Flirt FM is a licensed student radio station located at the University of Galway. It broadcasts at 101.3 MHz on the FM band and a webcast is also available.
CRAOL, also called the Community Radio Forum of Ireland, or Community Radio Ireland, is the representative, co-ordinating, lobbying, training and support group for Irish Community Radio. Every week, across Ireland, 2000 community radio volunteers broadcasts to 170,000 people in 20 fully licensed stations and 42 aspirant stations. The organisation runs a helpline to assist in the development of community radio. CRAOL is a registered provider of FETAC Accredited training.
Dublin South FM is a Community Radio station for South Dublin, which broadcasts seven days a week from 11am to 11pm on 93.9FM, and broadcasts 24 hours a day on digital.
Raidió Fáilte is an Irish-language community radio station, broadcasting from Belfast, in Northern Ireland. It started broadcasting under its current licence on 15 September 2006 having operated as a pirate radio station for some time prior to that.
RTÉ Radio is a division of the Irish national broadcasting organisation Raidió Teilifís Éireann. It broadcasts four analogue channels and five digital channels nationwide.
Raidió na Life 106.4FM is an Irish-language radio station founded in 1993 and broadcasting in County Dublin, Ireland. In addition to being transmitted on FM, the station's output is available worldwide via the internet.
Raidió Rí-Rá, founded in 2008, is an Irish language chart music radio station broadcasting on DAB in County Waterford and Dublin, on the Internet, and, for approximately one month a year, on FM radio. The station has offices on Harcourt Street in Dublin.
Liffey Sound FM is a not-for-profit community radio that broadcasts to the suburban town of Lucan, County Dublin, and its surrounding areas on the frequency 96.4 MHz. The station is operated by Liffey Sound Communications Co-Operative Society Limited and holds a sound broadcasting contract from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. Liffey Sound FM is also a member of CRAOL, the Community Radio Forum of Ireland.
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) is a former broadcasting authority which regulated both public and commercial broadcasting sector in Ireland.
Wired 99.9FM is a college radio station in Limerick city, Ireland, licensed by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to serve the student population of Limerick City. It is currently run as a partnership between Mary Immaculate College and Limerick Institute of Technology. The station broadcasts all over Limerick city on 99.9FM and also streams online.
8Radio.com is an Irish radio station, started in 2013 by Phantom FM founder Simon Maher. It is mostly an online music station, but has sometimes received a temporary licence from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) for FM broadcasts in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick.
