Well it's all change now as one visa will do both countries.

http://www.inis.gov.ie/en/INIS/Pages...ited%20Kingdom

It's the same for China and they'll be bringing in the same regulation for almost all countries outside the EU and the usual exceptions I presume US/Canada etc.

There's huge advantage for the Irish Tourism industry that's going after Chinese Customers.

We have German shops too so does make us German?

No I guess not We only have Aldi and Lidl though and they're more international these days. You still have to go to Germany for real German shops I'm going there on Wednesday for a quick break before I go back to college. I'm actually half-German and was born in London but I've been living in Ireland since 2003.


That might be what they have. They might have a permanent visa now allowing them free travel between the UK and Ireland, I don't really know.

To be fair I don't think anyone would ever rely on answers on international Visa law from a Thread about UTV Ireland (However Julian Simmons did work as an Air Steward I believe so maybe he'd know)

I'm actually studying law (at Masters level) but I haven't done Immigration Law. I've done International Business and Trade law though if that helps My college offers an Immigration Law module but since I'm doing a Masters in a rather specialist area I won't be able to do it.

Lastest from UTV Ireland

http://utv.ie/Press/2015/01/05/UTV-I...reaction-25850

Huge amount of moaning about UPC, but UTV Ireland still came second in Primetime on Friday. It's only one Day of course, but as was said before, It's all about the soaps, This is going to be a very interesting week.

And to be fair, the TV3 schedule does appear improved since Christmas, between Broadchurch, The Restaurant and The Guarantee, so by upping the standard of commercial TV, UTV I has already been of some service to the viewer.

Did they air Broadchurch series 1 on the same day as the UK. Im shocked that there not showing it at the same time as ITV tonight

That's a major problem with almost all Irish TV Stations (Jury is out on UTV Ireland as it's only 5 days old) They all think that Ireland Starts and ends in Dublin. TV3 planners probably only take UPC viewers into account when they make these kind of decisions. Anyone who's into this series and has access to ITV HD on Sat or UTV on Freeview is not going to wait an hour. But of course UPC customers will have to wait, and watch in SD.

RTE in the past had the same issues with some of their presenters not aware what stations were on Saorview as they had UPC at home...

Nothing revealing in that, we knew Emmerdale and Corrie were going to grab big numbers for them. Why didn't they tell us what the rest of their programmes got or their all day share. Similar to the TV3 press releases you've previously shredded, the same can be done to this.

Of course you're right, That's why I said it was 'only one day of course' However, if they maintain that share from 6 to 11.30 they would have achieved their goals for advertisers. Both sides press releases should be looked at with caution.

Utv Ireland I think will air most ITV shows at the same time as ITV. The only one so far which has changed is Benidorm

And Foyles War, they aired an episode from 3 seasons ago that had already been screened in Ireland, at the same time as UTV NI showed a new episode last night. Seems that they are going to try to be as cheap as possible.

"RTÉ says 724 ,000 people watched the first episode of Charlie last night.
It represents 43.5% audience share.
An additional 21,000 watched the first episode of the three-part drama on RTE 1 +1"

Fair to say I think RTÉ won last nights battle - big big audience for Charlie.

It really wasn't very good. In fact it was a real let down... At the same time I'll be watching again next Sunday. How they dealt with the stardust incident was very sloppy.

I don't think that RTE1 is going to be challenged for Top spot anytime soon, if ever.

Yes but that Primetime share is artificially inflated by the two soaps and represents 90 minutes of the evening schedule. Take them out and the share plummets. That is why it would good to see what their other shows are getting.

Another problem for UtvI is that viewers on Saorview are required to retune to get the channel. Is there any reason to retune it a lot of people will be wondering. There's nothing really to gain or lose by retuning it. I know some people are afraid to retune incase they lose some of the spillover channels in the process.

Yes but that's always been the point of this section of the Market. UTV are basing their station on the Soaps and one or Two other ITV shows plus the news. Those soaps have a presence on the schedule 5 nights a week. Take away the soaps off of TV3 and does it's share plummet? on the evidence of one night it does. (It came fourth on the night) However, it is only one Night, only a snapshot. That's why you have to be careful with press releases from either side. Will TV3's Home produced shows save the day?

TV3 said they couldn't make a profit with the soaps and were not sorry to see them go. UTV on the other hand have a different opinion. One of them will end up being right.

Do you know people that watch soaps? If you do you should know they'll do almost anything to watch their shows. On the other hand if what you say is true UTV Ireland are doing remarkably well, Increasing numbers on TV3 without a section of their audience.

Well two minutes in and UtvI's news offering looks cheap and has lower production values than TV3's offering. They have the same intro music as Utvni. The studio looks awful and bare. Why on earth is Alison Comyn holding a tablet like some sort of prop?? Already trumped by RTÉ 's 6.01 - UtvI said we'll hear from finance minister Michael Noonan later in the show, the same time he was appearing live on 6.01.

Yes and they can continue watching them on itvni on saorview. They haven't increased numbers on TV3.

I'm really pissed off about missing Foyle's War - have watched it from the beginning and now can't see the new series!

At least the new Broadchurch is being shown on 3e.

Why did they have to change it?? I hate it.

Actually week on week they had 98,000 more watching Coronation Street at 8.30 on Friday. However again you do have to take one day as just one day but it's an increase (and a big one)

Disagree totally with this... It's no Six-One and looks very much like a start up. However, it's proper news and looks a lot better than TV3, plus using studios around the country is clever. Plus the tablet is a prop??? are Sharon's and Brian's Computers on Six-One props as well? However, I do think their correspondents should stand away from the road when doing reports.

I thought it was going to be the new ep. They had no reason not to show the new eps