Yeah, we have to pay a TV license fee too, of 150. Being right next door to the UK, our government picks up on the UK's brilliant ideas, and vice versa. These brilliant ideas are usually to do with grubbing money, but not always. One of our Ministers came up with the great idea of banning any footage of anyone from Sinn Fein, that was enthusiastically taken up by the UK, and eventually led to the ludicrous situation of a still image of people in the news, with an actor reading what he/she had said. And......the content provided by RTE is absolute crap. PLUS they run commercials. They're so bad that even without a level playing field the commercial stations can survive and make more from ads, because no-one (apart from ninety-year-olds) watches RTE. Crap from morning til night.