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Its available for download as a torrent here
http://www.mininova.org/tor/887250

There is another thread describing how to use torrents. Great documentary!

Bittorrent is filesharing technology. You download a full show in many pieces and at the end it gets put together to be the original show. Others are also downloading these pieces and uploading them as they get them to other users. This helps profilerate a show quickly to many people and others can help shoulder the bandwidth burden. The torrent file itself is only a small text file with information about the show. You need a bittorrent application on your computer to open the file and start the downloading.
Different applications that all do the same thing, but with slightly different features
http://www.uttorent.com
http://www.bitcomet.com
http://www.azureus.com
http://www.bittorrent.com

Seeders -- people who have a copy of the full file and are letting others download it from them.
Peers/Leechers -- people who are still downloading the full file.

More info on bittorrent in general
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

It was invaluable after last years WC when all the games were uploaded, with bbc or aussie commentary. Best place for getting any soccer game or documentary
http://www.fbtz.com/forum/

Best place for getting the Rugby world cup games
http://www.diwana.org/

There definitely is an audience for an Irish torrent website although I think the numbers would be small enough to begin with. The uknova.com website is one that is devoted to UK users and almost all shows broadcast on BBC are posted there. They do have strict guidelines where stuff thats available on DVD or from Sky or any other broadcaster(e.g. rte) is prohibited from being posted on there. I would advice you to contact them since they have got around the legal ramifications, are not considered "underground" and would be a good model to base the site on.

At the moment the top site for looking for Irish related material would be demonoid.com but there are only a handful of users who post stuff from rte/tg4 and really only one dedicated guy. He has posted all Sunday Games for the past 2 years, The Road to Croker, GAA docs and all the big championship matches, as well as general rte documentaries/dramas. He also posts his torrents to mininova.com and is an absolute legend when it comes to satisfying the viewing needs of Irish overseas.

Here is a sampling of whats currently available for gaa stuff on mininova
http://www.mininova.org/search/?search=gaa
http://www.mininova.org/search/?search=kerry
as well as the excellent doc on Tadhg Kennelly
http://www.mininova.org/tor/871298

I think the issue is finding enough people in Ireland with access to RTE to record and post torrents (and have a good enough upload speed), but I think you will find there would be a dedicated set of Irish exiles wanting to download and seed the torrents.

Let me know if you need help with creating the website from a development(e.g. php) or design standpoint.