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# TV Licences

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# Your Say
Poll: Should pensioners in Ireland have to pay for their TV licence?
Free TV licences for up to 3.7m pensioners are being scrapped in the UK.
75.5k
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Jun 11th 2019, 9:32 AM
# no escape
Sky and UPC may have to hand over customer data in crackdown on licence fee dodgers
Communications minister Alex White wants to catch fee evaders.
16.4k
124
Apr 21st 2015, 6:17 PM
# Poll
Poll: Do you agree with the early release of short-term prisoners?
Someone jailed for four weeks can now be released after three.
10.4k
55
Jun 8th 2014, 9:46 AM
# Budget 2014
RTÉ to take €5m hit as Dept of Social Protection cuts free TV licences payment
Current recipients of free licences will not be affected, TheJournal.ie has learned – instead, the State broadcaster will take brunt of the cut.
11.5k
24
Oct 15th 2013, 5:00 AM
# Excuses excuses
The most common excuses Irish people give for not paying their tv licence
“Oh, I don’t live here, I’m just visiting a friend.”
34.6k
78
Jun 22nd 2013, 5:00 PM
# Britain
Rich pensioners 'should give back any handouts they don't need'
Free bus travel, free television licences, heating bill payments – one Conservative minister in Britain has suggested rich pensioners may not need them all.
7.7k
32
Apr 28th 2013, 5:36 PM
# Paperround
Cranky Clerys, faltering Arnotts, an underslept Ambassador and angry Croke Park ticket holders
Paperround: Your digested guide to the Sunday broadsheets.
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Aug 1st 2010, 9:53 AM