Plenty of homes around Dundalk are paying Sky or Virgin Media prices out of habit rather than choice. Before changing anything, spend a day testing the alternative on the screen you already own. No card at any point, nothing to cancel, and Louth in the championship, Dundalk FC in the League of Ireland Premier Division, plus every Premier League and Champions League night to judge it by.
Local viewing guide
Dundalk has the two things that make a town's telly habits distinctive: a club with real European history and a border running past it. Dundalk FC at Oriel Park have taken on continental opposition on nights the whole town turned out for, and the Louth derby against Drogheda United carries genuine edge. Because of the border, households here often want Irish and UK channels side by side, in the same way Newry does. Louth GAA add championship football on top. The upshot is that Dundalk is one of the harder places in the country to serve with a single conventional package, and one of the more useful places to run a trial before committing to anything.
Dundalk combines two things that complicate telly: a border a few miles up the road and a strong commuter link to Dublin. Households in the town and out through Blackrock, and up towards Omeath and Carlingford, frequently want Irish and UK channels together for the same family reasons as Newry. Fibre coverage in the town is good, with the usual variability heading into the Cooley peninsula where terrain intervenes. The useful 24 hours here is spent checking the cross-border question directly. If a single service carries both what the household watches from the south and what it wants from the north, that replaces a two-subscription arrangement, which is a materially different proposition to swapping one provider for another.
Start with the games you would be raging to miss. Around Dundalk that means Louth in the All-Ireland championship and Dundalk FC in the League of Ireland Premier Division. Open the guide, pull up the channel, and watch at throw-in when half of Leinster is streaming the same thing. A Dundalk v Drogheda United Louth derby is the sort of fixture worth planning the trial around. Short of being at Oriel Park on a Friday night, this is how most of the parish ends up watching it.
Connection check
Your line matters more than the app does. Border-town households often want Irish and UK channels side by side. HD needs roughly 10 Mbps and 4K roughly 25 Mbps. Virgin Media and Eir fibre. Check it during the evening peak in Dundalk so you see the real number rather than the best-case one.
Setup
Most people who message us from Dundalk are not chasing anything exotic. They want Dundalk FC, the big European nights and a film for the kids without a two-year contract behind it. The trial exists so you can confirm that on your own telly before cancelling anything you already pay for.
Send your name and WhatsApp number. No card, no account to create.
We send your login back on WhatsApp, usually within a few minutes.
A real person walks you through the setup on whatever telly or box you already own.
You watch for 24 hours and decide. Nothing renews, because there is nothing on file.
No. Nothing is taken up front and no payment details are stored anywhere. That is deliberate, because it is the only way a trial in Dundalk can genuinely cost you nothing.
No engineer and no hardware. The setup happens on WhatsApp, usually in under ten minutes, using the device you already own. Plenty of Dundalk customers do it themselves while we talk them through it.
The library includes GAA championship coverage and the League of Ireland Premier Division, so if a Louth or Dundalk FC game falls inside your 24 hours you can check it properly. Fixtures and rights move around, which is exactly why we would rather you test it on a real match night than take our word for it.
About 10 Mbps for HD and 25 Mbps for 4K. Border-town households often want Irish and UK channels side by side. Test during the evening peak rather than the middle of the day, because that is when the line is under load.
Access lapses on its own. You are not billed and there is nothing to cancel. If you want to keep it, The Taster is €100 once for 10 months, The Owner is €300 once for lifetime access on one device, and both come with a 90-day money-back promise.
The same free trial applies wherever you are. If one of these is closer, start there.
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No card. Nothing to cancel.
No card, no account, no contract. Give it 24 hours against a real fixture in Dundalk and decide from there.
Channel and event availability changes over time, so nothing here guarantees any given match. Use the trial to check your own must-have channels before paying. If you continue, The Taster is €100 once for 10 months and The Owner is €300 once for lifetime access, both with a 90-day money-back promise.
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