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Looking at 52 reviews, most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Many customers frequently complain that the mobile and television streaming application constantly freezes, buffers, and crashes during live matches. People also mentioned that the official website and digital platforms are poorly designed, outdated, and extremely difficult to navigate. Some reviewers were not happy with the excessive viewing interruptions caused by multiple unskippable video commercials. Consumers additionally noted that paying for a mandatory television license fee feels completely unjustified given the consistently poor service. Users also expressed deep frustration regarding various devices that are suddenly no longer supported by recent platform updates.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

If I could give this a minus rating, I would. This app is so indicative of the shambles that is RTE as a whole. Spending other peoples money on complete and utter rubbish. First year IT students... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Zero stars if possible Paying my TV licence for a rubbish service. Never connects yet broadband is mega fast.. Never remembers where you have left off if you do manage to get connected... Rubbish... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I read other reviews on this app and I can't understand why rte can't get some one in the field of developing an app that really works.. This app is total shite, constantly freezing, won't open half... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The RTÉ Player app is absolutely not fit for purpose. It crashes constantly, jumps forward or back in the middle of a programme, and often just switches itself off altogether. Trying to watch anythin... See more


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  1. News Service
  2. Media Company
  3. Radio Broadcaster
  4. Television Station

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ie is the brand name and home of RTÉ's online activities, located at the URL http://rte.ie.


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TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Why is there no 0 option for a review…

Why is there no 0 option for a review here, 1 star is way too high of a review for this disgraceful excuse for a national tv station, tonight our greatest ever fighter Katie Taylor fought for the last time and was again outstanding, but Rte thought it was a good idea to spend 3 hours advertising Lidl and Aer Lingus instead of showing the undercard of Irish fighters which is what Katie stands for, I can only imagine the type of people working for rte
making this decision,... never played a sport in their lives most likely, outrageous disgrace

6 September 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Unbelievable. Search on the app doesn't even work.

Unbelievable. When their flagship program "The traitors Ireland" is currently running, I did a search on the rte player with "The Traitors" and just "traitors" and "The amTraitors Ireland" and the result? Absolutely nothing. The app is a disgrace, it's easier to find a stream of an rte program on pirate sites!

5 September 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Today with David McCullough

Today with David McCullough, RTE RADIO 1, weekdays 9am-11am.
It’s been a refreshing change for the last few weeks with the stand-in presenters Claire Brock and Sharon Tobin; both of these presenters are professional and capable unlike the incumbent, David, who sounds perpetually bored, half asleep, and uninterested in the job. Add to this audible breathing, sighing and shuffling of papers. How…HOW did David get the gig-it seems RTE have a “he/she’ll do” approach to appointing presenters rather than assessing their actual competence and ability. Someone on social media recently commented that he sounds like he’s “sleepwalking through the show”, which couldn’t be more apt.
David is too long in the tooth for media training, he just has to go but I suspect will remain in the RTE bubble on the exorbitantly overpaid contract for the foreseeable.

22 August 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

-100/10 stars.

I wish I could leave much less than 1 star. It’s like rte have tried to make the worst app they could possibly make. Sites like these give Ireland such a bad name. Absolutely disgusting company. App doesn’t really function at all, there are regularly 4 simultaneous un-skippable ads and the connection is absolutely appalling. It’s like their servers are run by a computer from 1980. In summary just an absolutely disgustingly greedy, cheap, scummy company.

13 August 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Move RTE to subscription service only.

If I could give this a minus rating, I would.
This app is so indicative of the shambles that is RTE as a whole. Spending other peoples money on complete and utter rubbish. First year IT students could build a better website and application than the crooks in RTE no doubt spent huge amounts of money on.
RTE TV must be scaled down to the bare essentials. News, sport & weather. If the rest of their output is of such high quality they should be unafraid to move to a subscription service.

19 July 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Crap..

Crap... won't open at top of feed so have to physically scroll back to top each time. Also range of news is disappointing. Old version better!

3 July 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Ruining the World Cup

Ruining the World Cup! Who wants to watch staccato football, stutter, stutter, freeze. Every other app I have can stream content, RTEeeejits gets the World Cup and can't even stream it. And that's it, they get away with it, absolute shambles.

1 July 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

RTE is bad

If I could less than one star, shit everything, programs and online access. Stick you heads in the ground and ignore you are a drain on Irelands resources.

25 June 2026
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Absolute rubbish

Absolute rubbish. Can’t zoom in on images or text. I don’t know if all these changes they’ve made recently are attracting new listeners and readers but I do know for sure that they are losing plenty of them, myself included

14 June 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolute rubbish

Absolute rubbish, it's been ruined. No motoring or motor sport just for example. It's hard work trying to use it . They have gone backwards.

11 June 2026
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