RTÉ Reviews 

Every night from approx 22.30 onwards the RTE player is discracefull, freezing, page not found. Great films and series on it but not worth it, very frustrating

Please avoid RTE News. Manipulation / fake news. Thanks

RTE and its journalists are performing very poorly throughout the fuel crisis, and have failed to ask obvious hard questions.Their obsequiousness in the face of criminal obstruction by powerful unelected pressure groups such as farmers and hauliers is breathtaking. What happened to holding wrongdoers to account?

Not interested in parish pump news, Al Jazeera or TRT have excellent coveragege of international news.

How can this still be so bad?

It's like something from the 1990s...

Looks ok - simply does not deliver... endless glitches, buffering, lags.

would give it one star if i could. RTE is a joke of a company, so not surprised how ducking shit RTE player is. highspeed broadband and the streaming is like something from 20 years ago. Execs getting massive payouts from tax payers money and the main streaming service doesn't even work. ads replay a million times and buffers all the time. takes 2 hours to watch a 1 hour episode of something with the constant disruptions and delays.

Outright dishonest propaganda

RTE Player is an absolute joke! In this day and age how they’ve managed to mess this up so bad is beyond me! Don’t bother trying to watch a series, it’s stutters, freezes, goes back to start… don’t even try rewind, the ads start up again and again and again and again!!
Have given up and started to pay for any series I’d like to watch on Amazon rather than use this heap of muck!! Seems everything about RTE these days is awful!

They have to be trying to make it bad. It could not possibly be this bad by accident. It works on very few devices. On my Phillips TV which I got last year there was initially no app, but they later introduced an app that when loaded simply prints a message that this device is no longer supported. All other apps such as Netflix, Disney, channel 4 etc work fine. On a desktop computer often only the ads can be played on not the actual content. I think perhaps at this point they should consider if they need to outsource their player to a third party.

Absolutely shocking service. Buffering. Constant loading. For the tax payers money going into the platform it doesn't feel like it has been updated since 2010.

I have emailed RTE on a number of occasions and their latest email to me on the 4/3/2026 states that due to the large volumn of emails they are unable to respond to all of them. How many emails from people have they responded to? Is there anybody out there who has received a response? Let's see if I get a response to my latest email.

Paying TV licence but still bombarded with adverts
RTE news reporting international events very poor, they just look for Irish person living in the area for a report.
RTE News just get major international news stories by copying.
Marty Morrison should be retired still drying his hair.
Always load of coverage about Gaza.
Don't see any Black or Muslin news readers.
Nationwide program is just a advertising vehicle for the small business shown .
Why do we have to listen to Irish language on RTE 1 as we are paying for TG4.

RTE news sources are useless and uniformitave, always supporting the "supposedly" good Irish politicans who are meant to represent the Irish people, including! the now infamous coward like michael martin and the rest of the motley gang who want to remove our free speech, including yourselves who you give credence to their constant gnawing is disgusting. Not forgetting the promotion of perrenial Russiaphobia articles without due diligence and honest research to show who is really to blame for the war in ukraine and why the "good imigrant" is constantly shoehorned down our throats daily ad nauseam, not honest news , just a load of misinformed lies and a constant stream of rubbish...whos side are you on i wonder?

Rte Player is the greatest pile of shit I've ever been forced to watch a rugby game on. Dont know how many tries I missed seeing because you are paying your staff too much for shit tv, propaganda tow-the-government line news. And you expect people to pay a tv licence to a company like that?

Absolutely useless rte player rarely works an absolute disaster

Such a pathetic excuse for a streaming service. In Ireland can we just do something right one time? Always buffering, constantly stopping even with perfevt WiFi. Its a joke. And you expect me to pay for this rubbish?

Constantly freezing and missing parts of the show you’re watching even with good internet connection! rubbish service needs to be updated!!

RTE Player still a bucket of SH1T!

The app crashed on my smart TV.

Decided to use the app on my phone and cast it to the TV. Paused the program I was watching. Went back to watch it. The app had closed down. Just spent the last 20mins watching adds to get back to where I was in episode.

Feel extremely justified now for not paying my TV licence.

What another shambles from RTE .
Late Later finished up at 11.45 only to listen to x rated young band who spent most of the lead up to the new year tuning their instruments..who are they
Damp said and it wasn't even raining
No wonder it's the law to pay the TV license!!!

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 app...
RTÉ need to do million times better