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1. A senior manager at Tusla raised concerns over court assessors subjecting children to a controversial practice known as “immersion therapy”, which is used to encourage children to rebuild relationships with an estranged or abusive parent.
“I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead,” Trump told the newspaper in an interview aboard his plane en route to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, where he is set to be confirmed as the party’s presidential candidate.
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3. Biden warned yesterday of the risks of political violence in the US after Saturday’s attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, saying: “It’s time to cool it down.”
In a prime-time national address from the Oval Office, Biden said political passions can run high but “we must never descend into violence”.
Euros
4. England’s wait for a first major men’s trophy since 1966 goes on after substitute Mikel Oyarzabal struck at the death as Spain inflicted a second successive European Championship final defeat on Gareth Southgate’s side.
Stephen Donnelly will today reveal that the Government are to provide ‘flu vaccines, free of charge, to all those over 60 years of age and to children aged two to 17 for the seasonal ‘flu vaccination programme for 2024/2025.
GAA
6. Donegal manager Jim McGuinness said he wasn’t happy with a number of refereeing decisions as Galway edged a tense All-Ireland semi-final.
In a two-point game that was level on 10 occasions, referee Brendan Cawley’s decision to award Galway a 66th-minute free for an apparent touch on the ground by Donegal’s Ciaran Thompson was a huge call.
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7. The FBI is trying to learn more about Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old man who attempted to assassinate former US president Donald Trump on Saturday.
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was rushed off stage by Secret Service agents after several shots were fired towards him, piercing the upper part of his right ear.
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8. President Michael D Higgins will meet with the Council of State this afternoon to consider the constitutionality of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024, which will preclude the Defence Forces from publicly questioning or commenting on government defence policy.
Rugby
9. England ended Ireland’s hopes of securing a place in the final of the World Rugby U20 Championship for a second year in a row with a 31-20 victory in Cape Town.
Willie Faloon’s side had started the brighter and a try from Oliver Coffey gave them the initiative after just one minute.
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smart tv is the way to go.you will pay more upfront for the new tv, but will only have internet bill..Cancel sky and use the free to air channels left on the sky box..problem solved :)
I hate these articles – all they do is highlight the shortcuts the smart people use to watch free TV resulting in banning or blocking the good loopholes
Here’s a tip: don’t ring complaining Joe Duffy shhhtyle, just ring and tell them you want to cancel and switch provider – “Cancel” is the golden word in this game, I worked at that crack long enough to know. So ring UPC or Sky tonight and tell them you are not accepting the price increase and they will offer to transfer you to the cancellations team or offer you a callback if it’s too late in the evening… (Canx’s teams generally work till 6 or 7) which is basically a person waiting to offer you a number of specific sweeteners to keep your custom, nothing major just enough to cover the increase you complained about –
Make sure you have your facts and figures right before ringing though.., that used to annoy me!
Simple as that folks
I phoned up doing that, the offered me the same channels for €7.5 per month less indefinitely. Just have to ignore those half price movie offers as it would be had to cry poor mouth and asking for the movie package too!
Yep, have been on the full HD Sky Package with Sports & Movies with 2 extra multi room boxes for €80 for the past 8 months as they offered a deal when I called to cancel, still a big outlay but as we don’t get out much anymore and with 2 small kids it’s well worth it
€80 for TV. Are u off your rocker? We got Netflix in for €7 a month. I know they are putting it up to €8 for new customers but it’s still great value. I’ve just figured out how to view the US Netflix too. More than enough tv, movies and kids tv on that for us. I’ll use saorview or evision for €10 a month to record, rewind etc. Sky can take a jump with their sneaky annual €1 increases.
I augment with a freesat dvr box (uses the same sat and connections as sky) with no subscription and free hd.
I use netflix for €6.99 / month and lastly I use my apple to hire new movies.
Left sky and saved myself a fortune over the year.
Well done I did the same and they rang back 3 times, in the last call they offered me a 75%, YES 75% reduction had been paying over €70 a month, I said no thanks, I had got 2 Combi boxes Cost €279 (which is 4 months SKY subscription) and I can watch all the sport on the net, Happy days.
And the government still try to justify the T.V. licence regardless of the fact that providers are continuously raising their prices. Plus what is actually on T.V. that is worth watching? RTE were shouting from the rooftops at how good Amber was going to be and in the end it was dreadful. Love/Hate was decent but certainly not worth the price either.
Cancelled my Sky subscription last month and the called me back 2 days later offering me ANY package for 80% off for 9 months AND no contract so I can cancel any time so now I have movies, sports, HD, 3D and every other channel going for €27/month! The key phrase is cancel people, theres loads of options out there and they’d rather see you stay at a reduced rate than go with a competitor!
Company called Tv trade sell a freesat combi box for 100 euro delivered. If you have an existing satellite dish from sky you own it. You connect the combi box to the existing satellite feed in your sitting room, you then need a UHF aerial to get saorview channels, this aerial can be in the attic. This also connects to the combi box. Now you have Irish channels and BBC, itv, channel 4 , film 4 and lots of other stuff, for free forever. You only need one remote. If you connect a small hard drive you can pause and record Tv.
Go to free view get all bbc/ itv channels and ch4 more 4 e4 film 4 pick tv challenge tv and more on top of this no monthly bills can’t understand why people pay money every month for the crap they provide unless your a big sports fan and love sky sports then cancel your subscription and go free view I done this about 3 years ago best thing I ever did most the channels you pay them for are actually free
Stephen good work on the sports and movies but the Broadband speeds is an absolute load of nonsense as it makes no difference!! Tell them you’ll take something else instead… If you push them far enough they’ll give it to you!!
In the email we got from UPC they said we could cancel our contract without incurring charges because of the price increase so happy days, over to eFibre for €14 less a month and no connection charge. For 6 months anyway, then €1 more a month after that, still worth it. UPC stopped sending us a notification for our bill and we ended up getting a bank charge, rang them to find out what the story was and they said it was “standard procedure.” Said I’d remember that at the end of the contract, now I don’t even have to wait till the end
I’d love to be able to switch, or at least explore switching but I live in an estate that forbids satellite dishes due to the management company contract!
Has anyone any experience of ignoring/challenging this?
Hugely frustrating that I can’t even exercise a basic right of deciding who I want to buy my TV from because of this.
Stick up a satellite dish and if the management co tell you to take it down then write them a letter informing that there is an European Court of Human Rights ruling that states satellite dishes are a human right for receiving religious tv services. It happened in Sweden when a landlord removed the satellite of two immigrants, they lost in the Swedish high courts and went all the way to the ECHR and won.
EU law trumps Irish law so all you need to do is to tell your management company that you use the satellite to receive religious services and if they want to get you to take it down then they should take you to the European Court of Human Rights. That’s a battle any management company will run a mile from.
You definitely can’t record on sky+ when it’s cancelled and fairly sure u can’t view existing recordings, don’t quote me on that last bit tho. That’s the reason I didn’t go with sky in the first place years ago when sky+ first came out. You had to pay €199 for the box and if you didn’t have the sports and movies, you had to pay €5/month extra just to get the box to record!
You can buy other sattelite boxes that can record I think power city and did sell them or euro sales in dublin industrial estate near glasnevin cemetery you would get a sattelite dish there as well reasonable prices but there for free view
Yes – I have a couple of old Sky+ boxes which continue to work fine as basic free-to-air receivers and they happily record from the free-to-air satellite channels with no problem.
Ps3 with a decent WiFi connection, get to watch what I want when I want and even all the live sports I can, As long as it stays this good I have no need for sky
Dont subscribe to any pay tv channels -easy. Actually I do have one an online eurosport subscription 40 ish year to watch cycling thats it . Dont need the rest.
Got a HD set from Aldi in 2012 for under €60, loads of free to air channels. It was sold as a caravan/camping piece of kit, came in a handy case and can be bolted to a rail for those who are not allowed to fix a dish to a wall, must be due in again soon on their specials rotation. Lidl had something similar but it was not HD but keep an eye on their promotions. At the end of the day you have to be a sports fanatic to pay for sky and similar.
PS when I was a kid only one on our road had a telly and the Mammy of the house allowed our football mad teacher to watch a Manchester United game one afternoon which meant a half day for us :-)
Freesat is the job. You can pick up a Ferguson Ariva 150 for about €80. You get tons of channels, all the BBC, UTV, C4 etc. It has youtube etc built in, you can play from a Hard Drive or memory stick AND you can remote control it with Android/Iphone.
I would happily give up sky and use netflicks and use filmontv.com but since we can only get ( on a good day) 1.5mbs, we have to stick with sky. Will be ringing them tomorrow and see what they offer.
Ya want to save money on sports channels, get rid of it from ur sky package (€42) and download it to you ipad for (€6) both prices are per month. You can buy apple TV for €100 if you really want to watch it on you TV. Thats a total of €100..
We saw Sky had a better deal than our monthly UPC fee, so we rang them and they gave us a very substantial reduction. Result! And we have stonkingly fast broadband.
Found out recently that upc have charged me on average 61 euro a month for the past 13 months and heres the kicker,it was supposed to be only 34 euro.Am I the only one (dont think so) called BILLFREE TV and they installed FTA combi box for 269 euro..now no more TV bill..do the maths Happy days
Get rid of them and buy a freeview combi box if you cant install it yourself there are plenty of people who do! I”ve saved myself the charges of a tv package there are plenty of alternatives out there just stop giving them money!!
Pro tip: If your household finances are so fragile that a €1 per month increase in your Sky subscription makes a difference, you have no business creating children, or having Sky, until your situation improves.
In the contract for our apartment we are tied into only IPC. They have a ban on all satellite dishes etc so UPC have a monopoly on the place. Load of balls!!!
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