RTÉ Radio 1

RTÉ Radio 1 ranks 4 among 75 stations in Ireland. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

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

Across every country, RTÉ Radio 1 is 62 of the 307 stations leading with news, by the same open count the country list uses.

AAC here, on a dial that carries three different formats. A mixed codec listing usually means a country whose stations are hosted in several different places rather than through one dominant provider.

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.