Tara Television

It mainly broadcast news bulletins and current affairs programming, as well as extensive coverage of Irish sport, in particular, GAA.

RTÉ made sure that from 16 July 2001, Tara Television was blocked to Irish Sky subscribers as they feared loss of advertising revenue.

[2] It was anticipated that Tara would pay royalties to RTÉ to air these programmes, and it was also envisaged that this could eventually be extended to the United States, Canada and Australia.

An examiner, Ray Jackson of KPMG, was appointed and set out trying to place Tara back on a sound financial footing.

[5][6] In later years, RTÉ approached the issue of overseas broadcasting through the use of its website to stream current affairs and news programmes.