Channel 4. One of the good guys in broadcasting. And, they've done another nice thing. They've brought back their streaming video service, 4oD, to Ireland.

Richard Davidson-Houston contacted my friend, Shane McEntee, today via Twitter and declared the news, and I came to see the press release on the Channel 4 Products website.

Alison Crowe, from Channel 4 said:

As of this morning the Channel 4 On Demand service is now available for users in the Republic of Ireland.  The 4oD app used to be available but unfortunately we could not make the service on C4.com available immediately, because we were not able to differentiate between content where we had rights for ROI and content where we did not.  Apologies for this interruption to service.  The good news is that we can now do this!  So the majority of the content on 4oD is now available for you to watch.  We don’t have the rights for absolutely everything, but hopefully your favourite shows will be there. Enjoy!

Finally, I can watch Derren Brown again, and all those episodes of Shameless. I really shouldn't have paid all that money on The Inbetweeners box set after all.

Thanks Channel 4 for bringing back the service, and getting rid of the awful desktop player.

Now, BBC, can you match that, and allow your programming for us on the Emerald Isle?

photo credit: Ewan McIntosh