RTE doesn’t work with VPN?

I’m trying to watch the Dublin vs Meath game on RTE player with a VPN but it’s saying it has detected a proxy and won’t show anything, have they blocked you being able to use a VPN?

RTE also doesn’t work without a VPN

Think about it: all a VPN does is ‘tunnel’ you through to a computer in a given country. Fine, except your particular VPN provider will probably only have a few computers in Ireland. Thus, if RTE eventually work out what the IP addresses of these machine are, they can blacklist them. So it’s not that they’ve stopped their system being able to work with a VPN. They’ll have stopped it working with known computers owned by a VPN provider.

trying to force those abroad to buy the match on GAAGO

If you are using an Android device you should setup mock location in developer mode

You can’t even look at the RTÉ news website with a VPN.

It’s hit and miss. But NordVPN has worked for me more than 90 percent of the time, including watching the Leinster march yesterday.