The site began publishing on 26 May 1996. The site, it says, is funded by advertising and section. As of 2010it is among the top 4,000 most visited websites globally, by rankings, and among the top 10 sites in Ireland with certified impressions of over 75 million per month and over 4 million unique users. A redesign of the website's home page, news and business sections took place on 13 October 2010. A revamp of the website is due late 2014. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. These sub-sites, are interlinked and offer streaming of sound and picture where appropriate, with a huge for certain programmes going back to 1998. The news site was launched in 1998, with its own dedicated journalists. The huge archive offers streaming, in various quality back to 1999. Currently the site employs sectioning of news items, poll features, numerous microsites such as for, rte guide tv listings today throughout the. She was succeeded by Joe Zefran, who was News Editor between 2007 and 2009, but Treacy continued as Entertainment Editor. This arm of the site provides live-updating of scores across various disciplines, and covers the range of Irish rte guide tv listings today along with major world events and other smaller sports and codes with an Irish interest. This section of the site provides up to the minute business from Ireland and carries major news stories from the wires. There are listings of movie-times, and a hige database of reviews. Music is also reviewed and promoted along with concerts. There is also a gaming section consisting mostly of gaming news and reviews. Theatre and book reviews are also presented. Along with blogs and other interactive cross-overs, this section is particularly active. It will connect with users through various social-media organisations such as Facebook and Twitter. Aertel was provided by the site from 1996, originally to provide the text news service, and is digitised by the off-air broadcasts. Previous years' selections remain available, and cover radio back to the 1920s and television back to 1961. Dating and classifieds were added in 2009. The site was one of the first to offer audio downloads, with -hosted RealAudio 2 files being provided as far back as 1996, with streaming being introduced in 1997, initially usingand later moving back solely to Real. Streams of topical radio shows, such as Today with Pat Kenny andoften only cover the previous seven-day period, or a period of about a month for other shows such as. In a recent development an archive of going back to September 2006 has been made available. Very few full shows from are available for non-live streaming, and most shows on and only have the previous episode available. For their textual news, sport, business and entertainment sections; feeds are provided. These are available in and format. Much of the live video content on the site is restricted to the island of Ireland. Its content is from and. Archived from on 29 September 2011. Archived from on 28 December 2012.
