Sky is the most popular digital Television provider in Ireland. It is estimated that around one in three houses in Ireland have Sky Satellite TV installed.
Sky Ireland has several packages available to suit your household. The basic Sky Entertainment package has 90 channels with all your Irish and UK favourites. You can watch On-Demand & Catch Up TV, Pause, rewind and record all your favourite shows. You can use the Sky Go app to watch TV on the move at no extra cost.
Alternatives to Sky in Ireland
Virgin Media also provide TV and phone services in Ireland and it is available in Dublin and most of the main cities in Ireland. The Virgin Media TV prices and bundles compare very well with Sky – you can check out the prices here.
Compare Sky Prices with Virgin Media and Vodafone
Tip: After 12 months you are free to cancel your Sky subscription and you will still be able to get quite a few “free to air” channels using the sky dish with the sky box and the cancelled viewing card. You will still need a TV aerial to get the Irish Saorview channels.
Some of the UK channels are not visible on the Sky Digital menus in Ireland – but you can tune them in and add them manually as “Other Channels”. Such channels include UTV , STV ,ITV2,ITV3 ,ITV4, BBC4, Cbeebies and CBBC.
The SKY tuning information and frequency codes for some of the more popular channels are given below.
(Note – all these have MSYS set to DVB-S and MTYP set to QPSK )
Checked Feb 2024
| Channel Name: | Frequency: | Polarisation: | Symbol Rate: | F.E.C. |
| BBC 1 NI | 10.818 | V | 22000 | 5/6 |
| BBC 2 NI | 10.818 | V | 22000 | 5/6 |
| ITV SD | 10.891 | H | 22000 | 5/6 |
| CHANNEL 4 | 10.714 | H | 22000 | 5/6 |
| CHANNEL 5 | 10.307 | H | 27500 | 2/3 |
| BBC 3 | 10.773 | H | 22000 | 5/6 |
| BBC 4 | 10.803 | H | 22000 | 5/6 |
| ITV 2 hd | 11.053 | H | 23000 | 3/4 |
| ITV 3 HD | 11.087 | V | 23000 | 3/4 |
| ITV 4 HD | 11.068 | V | 23000 | 3/4 |
| E4 | 10.714 | H | 22000 | 5/6 |
| MORE 4 | 10.936 | V | 22000 | 5/6 |
| FILM 4 | 10.714 | H | 22000 | 5/6 |
| CBBC | 10.773 | H | 22000 | 5/6 |
| CBEEBIES | 10.803 | H | 22000 | 5/6 |
Tuning For HD channels on Sky Ireland
Important : For the UK BBC and ITV HD channels listed below – the MSYS is set to DVB-S2 and the MTYP is set to 8PSK
HD Channels
| BBC 1 HD | 10.847 | V | 23000 | 3/4 |
| BBC2 HD | 10.847 | V | 23000 | 3/4 |
| ITV HD | 11053 | H | 23000 | 3/4 |
| ITV2 hd | 11053 | H | 23000 | 3/4 |
| Channel 4 HD | 11127 | V | 22000 | 5/6 |
| BBC 4 HD | 11023 | H | 23000 | 3/4 |
| BBC News HD | 11023 | H | 23000 | 3/4 |