The following is a list of media available in the Irish language.
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"TG Ceathair", originally known as Teilifís na Gaeilge (TnaG), broadcasts on terrestrial television in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland with a potential population reach of 5-6 million. The station has almost 800,000 people tuning into the station each day in the Republic, almost double what it was in the 1990s with an annual budget of €38 million. The station's anchor shows are the long-running soap Ros na Rún (160,000 weekly viewership), popular teen drama Aifric, dating show Eochair an ghrá, documentary about the Irish language abroad Thar Sáile, reportage Fíorscéal, documentary Anamnocht, crazy travel show Amú Amigos (viewership 50,000), Seacht / Seven - university drama set in Belfast (viewership 40,000) the dating game Paisean Faisean, South Park in Irish, chat show Ardán, music programmes Pop 4, talent show Nollaig No. 1, and children's shows Cúla 4, Síle and the news programmes Nuacht TG4 (viewership 35,000) to mention but a few.
Cúla 4 carries a strand of children's programmes on terrestrial and satellite television with programmes in Irish, with a range of home-produced and foreign dubbed programmes. Programmes are broadcast Mondays-Sundays from 7am - 9am, then from 2.30pm-5.30pm.
RTÉ News Now is a 24-hour live news service available on the RTÉ website featuring national and international news. It offers a mix of Irish-language, English-language and Irish-sign-language TV news bulletins and political programmes. It broadcasts the following programmes: Cinnlínte Nuachta, Nuacht RTÉ, Nuacht an Lae, Cinnlínte Nuachta, Nuacht TG4, Pobal, Timpeall na Tíre and 7 Lá.
RTÉ International is a new digital TV station that is expected to be on air as of 2010. It will also contain some Irish-language programmes from TG4 and will be available in Britain, Europe and North America for the Irish expatriate community.
Houses of the Oireachtas Channel is a proposed digital television channel in the Republic of Ireland from 2009, which will show live broadcasts from the both Irish houses of parliament Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann in Dublin. It will cover parliamentary debates in both Irish and English.
Any complaints regarding the provision of services, including media in Irish within the Republic can be directed to An Coimisinéir Teanga (The Language Commissioner).
BBC Two Northern Ireland has its own Irish-language department producing some well-known programmes such as: music programme for young people Imeall Geall, trad music programme Blas Ceoil, youth drama Teenage Cics, documentary Isteach Chun An Oileáin, cartoon Na Dódaí, interior-decor show Gaisce Gnó and community programme Féile an Phobail. It is funded by the Irish Language Broadcast Fund which has been given £12 million over a five year period.
Irish public broadcaster RTÉ has one channel, RTÉ One, which broadcasts Irish-language programmes such as: news bulletin RTÉ Nuacht, docuseries of various scandals that rocked Ireland Scannal and community programme Pobal.
There are six radio stations that broadcast entirely in Irish:
Almost all national, regional and local stations also have regular Irish-language programming such as the following radio stations:
Outside of Ireland:
National:
Regional:
A company called Digital Audio Productions specialising in all aspects of radio programming has created two very successful Top 40 Oifigiúil na hÉireann and Giotaí brands of Irish-language radio programmes.
Top 40 Oifigiúil na hÉireann (Ireland's Official Top 40) is a new phenomenon, and it has become increasingly popular to hear the Irish Top 40 hits being presented entirely in Irish on what are regarded as English-language radio stations such as:
In addition to this, most English-language newspapers have Irish-language columns:
Several computer software products have the option of an Irish-language interface. Prominent examples include KDE,[2] Mozilla Firefox,[3] Mozilla Thunderbird,[3] OpenOffice.org,[4] and Microsoft Windows XP,[5] VBulletin the mostly popular software for hosting online chat forums has an Irish-language option. It is used by Politicalworld.org and Peoplesrepublicofcork.com.
In May 2008, the mobile phone maker Samsung said that it would create a mobile phone specifically for the Irish-language market, which would include Irish-language predictive text.
Later on, in November 2008, Samsung then announced all of its new phones launched from 2009 onwards would have "Gael Fón" - a feature allowing Irish as a language option, including predictive text, which was developed by the company - as standard.[6]
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