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Commercial television companies have alleged that RTÉ unfairly uses licence fee to outbid them for broadcast rights to foreign films, TV series, and sports events. RTÉ denies this. [ citation needed ] European Community competition law prevents state funding of commercial activity, and RTÉ's accounts charge for non-" public service ...
In Ireland, a television licence is required for any address at which there is a television set or device not exempted under Statutory Instrument 319 of 2009. [57] In 2008, the annual licence fee is €160. [58] Revenue is collected by An Post, the Irish postal service.
In 2019, the Register of Beneficial Ownership was introduced into Ireland. That was implemented on the back of the EU’s Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive, which essentially requires all member states to hold adequate, accurate and current information of all beneficial owners. A beneficial owner is someone who owns more than 25% of a company.
At 10:00 am on 24 October 2012 all analogue television transmissions ended in Ireland, [96] and RTÉ's television channels are now only available digitally on Saorview, satellite, and cable. Also on 24 October 2012, for the first time RTÉ 1 and RTÉ 2 were broadcast from transmitters within Northern Ireland on the UK Freeview system.
In April 2018, the EU Commission's GDPR rules forced Facebook to move 1.5 billion of the 1.9 billion Facebook accounts hosted in Ireland ( 79% of the 2.4 billion total global Facebook accounts), back to the U.S. [319] The April 2018 Irish High Court ruling in the Max Schrems EU data-protection case could make Ireland even less attractive to ...
Location of Ireland. This is a list of notable companies based in Ireland, or subsidiaries according to their sector.It includes companies from the entire island. The state of the Republic of Ireland covers five-sixths of the island, with Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, covering the remainder in the north-east.
The company formed to acquire the network from Morgan Stanley is "UPC Ireland N.V.", fuelling speculation this will be the eventual name. A combined company would own all the MMDS licences and almost all the cable licences in the Republic of Ireland (the local networks in Dungarvan , County Waterford and Longford town being the only major ...
Waterford@8 - this was a sister local TV service of WLR FM in Waterford. It was available on cable in Waterford city and Dungarvan and on MMDS in east Waterford and south Kilkenny. The service launched in 2000, and ceased in 2005. Sky News Ireland - this was an Irish version of Sky News, carried to Ireland on Sky Digital, and by most cable ...