I was one of the 400,000 people in Ireland with a dodgy box, but then I got rid of it – here’s why

Some estimates put the number of dodgy-box owners in Ireland at 400,000

Anonymous

Several factors resulted in me taking the plunge and buying a dodgy box last summer. I was uncomfortable with it, but we had become a two-TV family for the first time ever and, even more importantly, I had a nagging teenager who didn’t get to see her favourite TV show like her peers.

In hindsight, I know I should have just called up my TV provider and paid the few extra euro to have them pipe in a second box, but then that wouldn’t have kept the moody 14-year-old happy.