RTÉ Gold

Position 5 of 75 in Ireland. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.

Among 75 stations in Ireland here, this is the only one that puts classic hits first. The classic hits rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

Worldwide it ranks 12 among 61 classic hits entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

Encoded as AAC, one of the three formats Ireland's stations use. The country page breaks all of them out with counts.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

Its audio comes from liveaudio.rte.ie. Three other stations in Ireland stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

Their site is rte.ie, a domain registered in Ireland. Where a station's own address and its listed country agree, the entry is a little more trustworthy than one where they do not.