This channel list shows what plays live on an EmeraldIPTV plan in Ireland, starting with the groups an Irish household opens first. The Irish terrestrial channels come at the top, then the UK channels most homes here still watch every evening, then sport, films, series, children, documentaries and news. International groups follow for the many households in Ireland that watch television from somewhere else as well. Every plan includes all 25,000+ live channels, plus a separate library of 120,000+ films and series you can start at any hour.
The names below are highlights rather than a full inventory. Inside the player most groups hold far more entries, including regional versions and more than one picture quality per channel. Channels come and go as broadcasters change schedules and rights move, so this list is revised regularly. Use the search box to check a name, then confirm it yourself during the trial.
Irish Channels and What Saorview Already Gives You Free
Start with what costs nothing, because some households pay for channels they could receive over an aerial. Saorview is the Irish free-to-air platform, and with an aerial and a Saorview-approved receiver or a modern television it carries the Irish terrestrial channels with no monthly charge. Saorsat covers homes that cannot get a usable aerial signal.
What Saorview does not carry is the UK channels, the subscription sport, or any on-demand film library. That is the gap a subscription fills. If your household genuinely only watches Irish channels, put up an aerial and save your money; we would rather say that than sell you something you do not need. The Irish TV channels guide works through the comparison properly, including watching Irish television from abroad.
Two Halves of One Subscription
What you are buying is really two things wearing one login. The live side runs to the broadcaster clock, exactly as an aerial channel does, so you join whatever is playing. The on-demand side ignores clocks entirely: choose a title, press play, and the player remembers where you stopped.
A normal evening in an Irish house uses both without anyone thinking about it. The six o clock news live, a match at half seven, then two episodes of something once the children go up. One price covers the lot and both halves open in the same app.
The UK Channels Irish Homes Still Watch
British television has been part of normal Irish viewing for decades, and the UK group reflects that. The main terrestrial channels sit alongside their digital siblings, so soaps, drama, documentaries and the Saturday night schedule are all in one place rather than scattered.
For a lot of households this group is the actual reason for subscribing. An aerial gives you the Irish channels; it does not give you the British ones. This is where the two lists join up under one login and one guide, without a second box or a second remote.
Sport, Films, Series and Children
The sport groups split between Ireland and Britain on one side and worldwide on the other, which matches how sport is actually followed here. Championship coverage, rugby, League of Ireland, Premier League, European football and racing all sit in the first group. The sport page matches competitions to broadcasters and is honest about what pay-per-view and league-only platforms keep back.
Films and Entertainment gathers the premium film channels, with classics alongside new releases. Series and Drama is for people who follow a show week by week. Kids and Family keeps the cartoons in one place, including the Irish language children service, so a child is not scrolling past a crime drama to find something to watch.
Documentary, Factual and Lifestyle rounds off the block, with nature, history, home and cooking channels. News, Business and Weather brings together the Irish, British and international news channels most households check every day.
The Netflix Question, Answered Bluntly
People search for this hoping one subscription will replace every app in the house. It will not, and we would rather say so here than have you find out on the first evening. Netflix, Disney+, Max and Prime Video are not part of this and neither are the series they produce themselves, because those are licensed to nobody else.
What replaces them, partly, is the on-demand library: a broad general collection rather than any one studio catalogue. Some titles you have in mind will be in it and some will not, so search for four or five specific ones during the trial instead of guessing from category names.
There is a second distinction worth grasping. A film channel in the Films group is a linear channel with its own schedule, not the on-demand catalogue of a similarly named streaming service. Confusing the two is the most common source of disappointment in this market. In practice a good number of Irish households keep whichever single app they genuinely watch and run everything else through here.
How Live TV and On Demand Sit Together in the Player
Once you sign in, most player apps open on a home screen with three sections. Names differ slightly between apps but the layout stays close to this:
- Live TV: the groups listed above, with the programme guide alongside or underneath.
- Films: individual titles with posters, sorted into categories like new additions, action, comedy, family and classics.
- Series: shows broken into seasons and episodes so a box set runs in the right order.
One press of the back button moves between them. A warning about resume points: they live in the app on that particular device rather than on your account, so pausing on the television does not carry over to a phone. The setup guides show where each section hides on a Firestick, a smart television or a phone.
Catch-Up TV on Channels You Missed
Catch-up bridges live television and on demand. On channels where it is switched on, the guide lets you scroll backwards and play a programme that has already gone out. That covers Sunday's match watched on Monday, or a drama you only saw the end of.
- Open the live guide and find a channel with a catch-up icon or tab.
- Move left along the timeline to the programme that finished earlier.
- Select it. It starts from the beginning, with pause and rewind available.
Each channel sets its own catch-up window, and not every channel offers one. For programmes you never want to miss, some players can record instead. The TiViMate guide explains catch-up and recording step by step.
Using the TV Guide to Decide What to Watch
The electronic programme guide is the grid of what is on now and next. It downloads with your playlist and fills in titles, start times and short descriptions. A tidy guide turns the evening question into a quick scroll.
- Keep favourites short. A dozen entries covering the Irish channels, the UK ones, your sport and a news channel beats scrolling thousands.
- Look ahead before dinner rather than at nine, and set a reminder if the player offers one.
- Confirm the clock reads Dublin on the device, because a wrong time zone quietly ruins catch-up.
- Delete the groups nobody opens. This is the change people notice most a week later.
Listings come from what each broadcaster publishes, so a channel with no published schedule simply has an empty row while its stream plays perfectly well.
Picture Quality and Your Connection
Many popular channels appear in more than one quality. Choose the 4K or FHD copy on a fast wired connection and the HD one when the household is busy or the line is slower. Switching takes a second, so it is worth keeping both in your favourites, particularly for sport. The 4K IPTV page explains what the sharpest feeds actually need in an Irish home.
Judging a Line-Up Properly
Publishing a long list of names costs nothing, which is why everyone does it. The questions that actually decide whether you enjoy the thing are narrower: do your channels start quickly, is the guide populated, and do live television and the library sit behind a single login. Apply those to any provider you are weighing up. The ten checks page extends that into trial terms, refunds and support.
Here, every plan carries a 24-hour trial with no card, a 7-day money back window and no renewal you have to fight. The point of all three is that you form your own view on your own television rather than taking ours from a web page.
If Something You Want Is Missing
Nothing carries everything. Where a channel does not turn up in search, message support with its name, the country it broadcasts from and a link to its website if you have one. Do the same for a film or a series you expected to find.
You will get a straight yes or no rather than a vague maybe, and you will get it before committing to a long term rather than afterwards. Channels several people ask for are the ones that tend to arrive first.
Better than asking, though, is looking. Take the free 24-hour trial, work through the groups yourself and search the library for four or five titles you actually want. Satisfied? The plans start at €12 a month or €59 a year, and the subscription guide covers picking a term.
Open the Irish channels before you pay
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Channel List and On-Demand Questions
Are RTE, Virgin Media and TG4 included?
The Irish terrestrial channels sit at the top of the line-up rather than in an add-on pack, next to the UK group. Line-ups do shift as rights move, so the sensible course is to open those channels yourself during the 24-hour trial, on the television you actually use, before any money changes hands.
Does the line-up include Netflix or Disney+?
It does not, and nor does any IPTV service. Those platforms sell memberships for their own apps and license their originals nowhere else. What you get here is 25,000+ live channels plus a separate library of films and series. A show exclusive to one of those platforms still needs an account with it.
Do bigger plans unlock more channel groups?
No. The line-up and the library are identical on every plan, from a single month to a full year. Irish, UK, sport, film and children groups all appear on day one. The only things extra money buys are a longer term or more screens playing at the same time.
How far back does catch-up go?
That is set channel by channel rather than by us, and only channels offering replay have it at all. Your player marks them with a small icon or a separate tab. Open the guide, scroll back to what you missed and press play. Last night is a far safer bet than last week.
Some channels show no programme listings. Why?
Guide data downloads separately from the channel list, so give it a minute on first sign-in and then force a refresh in the player. A few smaller channels publish no schedule whatsoever, leaving their row blank while the stream itself plays normally. If a major channel stays empty, send support a message.
Can I stop children wandering out of the kids group?
In most players, yes. TiViMate and IPTV Smarters Pro both lock groups behind a PIN, so the usual arrangement is to leave the children group open and put a code on everything else. The setting is stored on each device, so repeat it on every screen they use.
Are international channels included?
Yes, spanning 60+ countries, which matters in a country with as much migration as Ireland has seen. European, Asian, African, Middle Eastern and American groups all appear alongside the Irish and UK ones. Exactly which channels are carried changes over time, so check the ones your household needs during the trial.
