The channel 4 coverage has been excellent. The ads can sometimes be annoying though.

I was surprised but I did a bit – huge inspiration! Even I find the Olympics very boring and am not into sports at all but its amazing what people can achieve when they do not allow themselves to be knocked! We can learn from them loads!!!

Way too many ad breaks!

Living overseas and following the games on the london2012 site and thejournal.

While C4′s coverage has been top notch, it is very Team GB centric. My cousin James Scully was swimming for Ireland last week (he’s been brilliant btw as have all our athletes :) ) and his heat wasn’t shown on C4 as they were interviewing some of the Team GB athletes.
Our grandmother couldn’t watch it online live so we had to play it back for her afterwards which didn’t have the same excitement.
Would it really have killed RTE to cut into regular programming on RTE2 to show the odd race? The used to do it the whole time back in the day for Athletics World Championships etc.

The channel 4 coverage has been amazing the athletes are inspirational and I am certain that any disabled child watching and seeing the way these athletes are getting so much positive coverage would be a great boost. Their ABILITY has been to the fore not their disability. I agree about Clare Balding she is playing a blinder also the show “the last leg with Adam Hill” which us on after the evening coverage is so funny and again would show young people that having a disability doesn’t mean you have to hide away.
Yes RTE should have covered these games but in all honesty they wouldn’t be able to match channel4.

I’ve been watching the Paralympics on Channel 4 and Setanta, and I have to say first of all that ALL the sportspeople from ALL the countries have been magnificent, in view of their disabilities. As an Irishman I’ve watched with pride as we won medals, with yet more to come.

But RTE, our main national broadcaster, should hang their heads in shame. Not too long ago they gave blanket coverage to those useless athletes and swimmers who performed so badly in the Olympics, and came up with pathetic excuses for their failures. Only for the boxers and one showjumper, plus Annalise Murphy and Rob Heffernan who at least tried and came close, it would have been a disastrous Games for us. Yet they are only showing brief highlights every night of our brilliant Paralympians, who have already passed the medals haul won by their able-bodied counterparts in the FIRST week. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME on you RTE!

CH4 have great coverage… channel 453 on sky platform have ch4 in hd for the games coverage… pity RTE couldn’t follow there lead…. i guess they’d rather keep their money to pay the likes of Dunphy and Giles….
SHAME ON RTE>>>>>>>>>

There are two major problem with the Para Olympics. The classification and the equipment.the Classification system defines an individual’s level of disability and bunches them together ( there are 27 different 100m gold medals to compete for ). This is suppose to level the playing field but there is to much room for error or cheating. ( China had 700 athletes reclassified before the games ). Then there is the equipment. The richer you are you can afford the best and most expensive equipment ( wheelchairs, limbs etc ) competing against inferior equipment. So keep these in mind when your watching.

rte wasting taxpayers money on shite American imports,abolish the licence fee and get rid of these wasters

C4 have great coverage as do Setanta Ireland (on freeview) they are a both a bit country centric, but, which channel is completely unbiased?. In addition rte.ie/live has four channels. Anybody with upc/sky & decent internet shouldn’t miss too much.

Most of my family has actually been to see some of it.

Who watches RTE anyhow?

I have been watching these events on Setanta who, in fairness, have enormous coverage and all free to view although you do have to have Sky coverage.
But, Setanta do put RTE to shame with their coverage.

RTE? Are they still broadcasting?

I voted “no, not interested”, but that’s nothing to do with the athletes.. I didn’t watch the other Olympics either. I find the lot just boring

RTE should be showing it live ……………………..they have done us proud !!!!!!!

I like the idea of the Paralympics but i have had enough of any sort of Olympics by now.

RTE has let us down on this. Should be covering it just like the Olympics.