Citations:dodgy box

Noun

 * Cormac Murphy (21 April 2008) "Crackdown on illegal 'dodgy box' decoders" Evening Herald (Dublin)
 * UPC Ireland, the country's cable TV provider, has hit back at owners of the so-called 'dodgy boxes' by scrambling network codes to block out illegal viewers. The decoders can be bought for a once-off payment of €110 and give owners access to more than 130 channels.
 * Jan Battles (18 January 2009) One in five cable customers has a ‘dodgy box’ The Sunday Times (Irish edition):
 * Almost one in five Irish cable television customers has an illegal decoder to unscramble channels that they are not paying for, according to industry estimates.
 * Billy Keane (6 April 2015) "The tale of the man who really has it all figured out" Irish Independent; reprinted as "Meet The Man Who Has It All Figured Out" in The best of Billy Keane (Ballpoint Press, 2016) ISBN 9780993289224 p. 122:
 * There's a large ear on the gable wall bringing TV in through a dodgy box.
 * Aoife Dooley (2016) "NETFLIX AND CHILL" HOW TO BE MASSIVE (Dublin: Gill) ISBN 9780717172702 p. 125
 * IF YE DONT HAVE NETFLIX THEN THE DODGY BOX WILL DO.
 * 2017 April 26, Gordon Hunt "Are dodgy boxes illegal? The EU has its say" Silicon Republic
 * Earlier this week, eBay announced it was removing pre-loaded dodgy boxes, meaning those with Kodi Android software already on them.
 * 2017 June 30, Ian O'Riordan, "Pat Hickey interview avoids the hard questions" The Irish Times p. 6 Sports
 * The Untouchables showed up on our dodgy box during the week, right on that scene where Al Capone is attending a performance of the opera Pagliacci.
 * 2018 December 10, Brian O'Connor "When will sport on subscription TV reach a breaking point?" The Irish Times p. 10 Sports
 * The modern equivalent of the ‘dodgy box’ is illegal streaming.
 * Lisa McInerney (13 May 2021) "Track 10: Tall Tales" The Rules of Revelation (John Murray) ISBN 9781473668928
 * 'I got one of them set-top boxes,' her father said, without looking over.
 * 'It's a dodgy box,' Ryan said.
 * 'It is not. I got it from one of the lads, it's preloaded, that's all, it's not dodgy.'
 * 'That's the definition of dodgy,' Ryan said.
 * 2022 February 22 thread Twitter
 * @JohnzoHayze: I love the way we Irish as a nation just decided to universally refer to fire sticks as the “dodgy box”
 * @EoinDonovan98: There's a difference between a "dodgy box" and a "fire stick".
 * hail_hail (30 April 2023) "Celtic v Zombies - Live Match Thread || FT: 1-0 (Jota)" (post 87) Kerrydale Street
 * I paid for Via play to ensure I got a quality reliable stream and the stream on Amazon is awful. I'm getting a better stream on my dodgy box.
 * Conor Pope (6 October 2023) "Dodgy boxes: Could I end up in court if I own one?" The Irish Times
 * Then there came the legally questionable dodgy boxes. They plug into a television and if they have certain apps installed users can stream content directly from the internet on to their televisions.