Sky is the most popular digital Television provider in Ireland. It is estimates that around one in three houses in Ireland have Sky Satellite TV installed. See the Current special offers at Sky Ireland -

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The Sky Plus box is a great facility - you can store up to 185 hours of standard definition programmes. The Sky+ box is even HD ready - so if you subscribe to HD you won't need any new equipment.

Sky Ireland also have premium channels - for Sports and Movies - for an additional cost. If you have any sports fans in the family it can work out cheaper than going to the local pub to watch Premiership matches. (By the time you have bought a drink or two.)

Tip: After 12 months you are free to cancel your Sky subscription and you will still be able to get quite a few "free to air" channels using the sky dish with the sky digibox and the cancelled viewing card You will still need a TV arial to get the Irish channels .

Some of the UK channels that are "freeview" are not visible on the Sky Digital menus in Ireland - but you can tune them in and add them manually as "Other Channels". Such channels include ITV2 ITV3 ITV4 BBC3 BBC4 Cbeebies CBBC .

The tuning information for some of the channels is given below.

BBC channels on Sky Ireland
Frequency:
Horizontal Polarisation.
Symbol Rate: 22.0
FEC 5/6.

Channels Available. BBC ONE London, . BBC TWO London , BBC THREE, CBBC,

BBC ONE 10.818 V 22000 5/6
BBC TWO 10.818 V 22000 5/6
BBC THREE 10.773 H 22000 5/6
BBC FOUR 10.803 H 22000 5/6
CBBC 10.773 H 22000 5/6
CBEEBIES 10.803 H 22000 5/6

To pick up ITV channels including CITV ITV2 ITV3 ITV4 on a Sky digibox use these settings

UTV 10.906 V 22000 5/6
ITV 1+1 10.906 H 22000 5/6
ITV 2 10.758 V 22000 5/6
ITV 2+1 10.891 H 22000 5/6
ITV 3 10.906 V 22000 5/6
ITV 3+1 10.906 V 22000 5/6
ITV 4 10.758 V 22000 5/6
ITV 4+1 10.832 H 22000 5/6
CITV 10.758 V 22000 5/6