IPTV Ireland channels: the list from the Irish groups down

IPTV Ireland channels run to 40,000+ live streams, and the list makes sense the moment you see its order: country first, then category, with the Irish groups placed at the very top. This guide walks down that list the way an Irish household meets it on the first evening, from the home groups through the UK ones, sport by discipline, films, kids and the world groups, then shows how to cut it down to the handful of folders you will actually open.

How IPTV Ireland channels are sorted

Over 40,000 channels in one column would be useless. The playlist sorts them into groups, and the player shows each group as a folder or category in its left-hand menu. One rule decides the order: country first, then the kind of programme.

So the Irish part of the list holds its own news, sport and entertainment groups, the UK part holds its own, and the pattern repeats through the world groups. Sport, films and other genres also get groups of their own further down, for the evenings when you are after a match or a film rather than a country.

Group names are short labels written by the people who maintain the list, and their wording can change when it is updated. The order does not: Irish groups at the top, the rest beneath.

Quality marks beside the names

Many channels carry a mark such as HD, FHD or 4K in their name or beside it in the guide. Pictures go up to 4K UHD on channels whose source is produced in 4K; the others run in HD or Full HD, and quality depends on each source. If the same channel turns up more than once with different marks, start with the version your line holds in the evening rather than the highest one.

The Irish groups at the top of the list

Among the IPTV Ireland channels, everything Irish sits before anything else, split into six kinds. None of them needs a separate login, an extra pack or a different app: they arrive with the rest of the list the moment you sign in.

National

The national group holds the main channels of the Republic, the ones a TV would put on its first few numbers. For most homes this is where an evening starts: the news at the usual hour, the Sunday-night drama, the forecast before bed.

Regional

Regional channels carry local news, community programmes and events from around the country. Their schedules are lighter than the national ones, so open the guide before you settle in rather than expecting a full evening’s line-up.

Irish-language

This group gathers the channels that broadcast as Gaeilge. Homes with children in a Gaelscoil, or adults brushing up for an oral exam, often keep one of them in favourites. Whether a programme shows subtitles depends on the broadcast, not on the player.

News

Irish news channels sit apart from entertainment, so a household that mostly wants the headlines can favourite this one group and ignore the rest. Bulletins appear in the guide at their Irish hour, which turns the guide into a dependable timetable.

Sport

The Irish sport group gathers the sport channels from Ireland. On a championship weekend it is the most watched folder in the house, and the one that asks most of the broadband; the sport section below explains how to get through a big match on any line.

Entertainment

Drama, soaps, comedy, quiz shows and lifestyle programmes from Irish channels live here. Catch-up earns its keep in this group: on the channels that offer it, last night’s episode usually stays available for up to seven days.

The UK groups that follow

Straight after the Irish groups come the UK ones, laid out in the same way: general entertainment, news, sport, films, kids and so on. Plenty of Irish homes have watched British channels for decades, so they sit second, a scroll or two below the Irish folders.

Ireland and the UK share one clock all year round. A UK programme listed at 21:00 starts at 21:00 in Galway too; there is no sum to do, in winter or in summer.

Homes in Northern Ireland see the very same order, Irish groups first and UK groups next. Paying in euro with a sterling card, the guide on the same clock and broadband across the six counties are covered in the guide for homes in Northern Ireland.

Sport, sorted by discipline

Further down, sport has groups sorted by what is being played rather than by country. Go there when you follow a sport rather than a channel. The disciplines you will find include:

• Gaelic football, hurling and camogie, for summer Sundays and the club season;
• rugby, from club matches to international weekends;
• football, Irish, British and from further afield;
• horse racing, flat and jumps;
• golf, tennis and motor racing, often long days with the action spread over hours;
• boxing, darts, snooker and cricket, each in its own group.

The Irish sport group and the discipline groups do different jobs. Use the Irish group when you know which home channel is showing the game; use the discipline group when you only know what sport you want tonight.

Match night on an Irish line

When the source carries it, live sport comes through at 50 frames a second, enough to keep a sliotar or a rugby ball sharp on a fast pan. Big match evenings are also when Irish broadband is at its most crowded, roughly 19:00 to 23:00 and worse at weekends. A 4K screen needs about 25 Mb/s held steady and Full HD about 10, so on fixed wireless or a 4G router the Full HD version of a channel is the safer choice for the big game. The guide to evening speeds on each Irish line shows what your connection usually holds.

There is always a lag between the live broadcast and your stream: a few seconds at best, up to half a minute at worst. When the neighbours roar before you see the score, that lag is why; turn the family group chat to silent if goals keep arriving there first.

Films, kids, documentaries and music

Film channels are grouped by genre and follow a schedule like any other channel. Next to them sits the on-demand library: 120,000 titles between films and series, the bulk of them in English and the rest subtitled. The difference matters on a Friday night: a film channel starts when the schedule says, a title in the library starts when you press play.

Kids

The kids' groups hold cartoons, pre-school and family channels. Many players can lock chosen groups behind a PIN under parental controls, which keeps younger viewers inside their own folders while the rest of the list stays open to the adults.

Documentaries

Nature, history, science and true stories sit together here. They make good company on a wet afternoon, and they ask less of a slow line than live sport, since a calm picture compresses well.

Music

Music channels play videos and concerts around the clock. Put one on through a party or a long Sunday lunch and nobody has to choose a playlist.

World groups by country and language

Below the genres come the world groups, one country or language at a time, for the many homes in Ireland where another language is spoken at the kitchen table. Among them:

• Polish and Lithuanian groups;
• Romanian groups;
• Brazilian groups, in Portuguese;
• Arabic groups;
• Chinese groups;
• Indian and other South Asian groups, sorted by language;
• and more countries besides.

Larger world groups are often split further by kind, so news, films and children’s channels sit apart within the country. Their listings are converted to Irish time like everything else: a bulletin at 20:00 in Warsaw shows at 19:00 in an Irish guide, all year round.

The Indian and South Asian groups have enough languages to fill a guide of their own: the Indian channels by language, with India time against Irish time.

Favourites, hidden groups and search

Nobody scrolls through all 40,000+ IPTV Ireland channels. Three tools in any decent player cut the list down to the part your household uses.

Favourites

In most players a long press on OK over a channel opens a small menu with “Add to favourites”. The favourites list then appears above the groups, in an order you choose. Favourites are usually saved on the device rather than in the login, so the TV in the kitchen keeps its own list and the one in the sitting room another.

Hiding groups

TiviMate and several other players let you tuck whole groups out of sight, through the settings menu or by holding OK on a group’s name. A hidden group is not deleted; it comes back the moment you unhide it. Where a player cannot hide groups, it can usually lock them with a PIN, which at least keeps them closed.

Search

The search box in the live TV section finds channels by part of their name. Three or four letters are usually enough, and searching is quicker than scrolling once you know what you want.

The IPTV Ireland setup steps show where these menus sit after the first sign-in, and the comparison of players for Irish homes says which apps hide and reorder groups.

The programme guide on Irish time, and catch-up

The seven-day guide loads with the Xtream Codes login and shows every group on Irish time: GMT in winter, Irish Standard Time in summer. On 6 November 2026 the clocks are on GMT; they go forward on 28 March 2027 and back on 31 October 2027. If the listings slip by an hour after a change, a one-hour “EPG time offset” in the player’s settings corrects them.

Players opened with the playlist link need the guide link added separately; the M3U guide explains where the XMLTV link goes.

Catch-up

Channels that keep an archive show a small mark in the guide; the icon differs from player to player. Scroll back to a programme from the past days, pick it, and playback begins at its opening. How far back you can go is typically a week, and channels without an archive just don’t show the mark.

The channel list doesn’t change from one Atlantic plan to another, nor do the library or the picture; what changes is how many months you get and how many TVs can watch at once. Atlantic 12 costs €49 for a year, about 13 cent a day, and Atlantic 12 Duo at €79 plays on two TVs at once. Compare them in the plan cards on the home page or on the IPTV subscription Ireland page with each end date. If you are after a kind of channel and cannot tell which group holds it, ask the team before you order.

For what your own line will play before you pick a plan, the Line check on the IPTV Ireland home page lists each Irish connection type with its usual evening speed.

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