The only dodgy thing here is the name.

Hundreds of thousands of Irish homes have a dodgy box. Most of the people who own one aren't villains. They looked at the price of watching everything legally, did the sums, and gave up. We understand the sums. We just think there's a better answer than a stranger's box and a lifetime of buffering.

What this site does

It catches the search for "dodgy box" and shows the legal middle: free-to-air TV through Saorview and satellite, subscribing to sport only in the months it's on, day passes for the big matches, and a certified box that'll still get updates next year. The finder does the maths for your exact mix. The guides explain the rest.

What it doesn't do

• It doesn't tell you how to get, set up or use a pirate service. Not in the articles, not in the comments, not in a wink.
• It doesn't sell boxes, "fully loaded" or otherwise.
• It doesn't rank services by what they pay us. The cheapest honest option always goes first, including the ones that pay nothing.
• It doesn't use anyone's logo without permission, so services appear as plain text chips until they say otherwise.

How it stays free

Affiliate links on some services and hardware, and a small fee from installers when we introduce them to a homeowner who wants an aerial or dish. That's the whole model, spelled out on how we make money.

How the pages are made

Every price comes from the service's own Irish pricing page, every sports-rights claim from the broadcaster's or rights holder's own announcement or from Irish court and press reports, and every transmitter from 2RN's published network data. Each page shows the date its facts were last checked and lists its sources at the bottom. Where a detail changes often or we couldn't pin it down, we don't guess: we say so and link to the official source with a check the latest link so you can confirm it yourself. If you spot something out of date, tell us and we'll fix it. A check runs before every publish and flags any figure older than 60 days.

We use AI tools to do the legwork: gathering the source pages, pulling the figures out of them, and producing first drafts in the site's voice. A person then reads every page, checks each figure against the linked source, and decides what to publish. We do it this way because one small Irish site cannot re-check sixty prices and thirty rights deals every season by hand, and because a stale price is worse than no price. What AI is never used for: inventing a number, a quote, a court case or a fixture, or churning out pages for the sake of it. If a fact is wrong, that is our fault, not the software's, and we will fix it.

The finder's sums, the rights tables and the price tables are generated from the same data files, so the guide, the review and the finder cannot disagree with each other. When a price changes we change it once.

The pictures on the show and film tiles are our own artwork, made for this site from each title's premise. They are not official posters and don't show the real cast, characters or logos.

Corrections

Spotted something out of date? Email us with the page and what changed. We check the source, fix the page and update its check date. We don't bump the date on pages that haven't actually changed.

Who runs it

dodgybox.ie is an independent site run from Ireland. Pages are signed "the dodgybox.ie editor": that is the owner, who researches, checks and stands over everything published here. Contact: hello@dodgybox.ie.

It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any broadcaster, streaming service, rights holder or enforcement body.