Timewarp Ireland

At position 56 of 75, this is one of the stations in Ireland that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

The open count against Timewarp Ireland is two, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Timewarp Ireland has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in Ireland on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where Ireland's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

Its audio comes straight from broadcast.shoutstream.co.uk:8052, an address unique to this entry in Ireland's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.