Recognise the documented change
The general help page still describes English on-screen text on late repeats and the Sunday omnibus, with Irish available through a subtitle selection. The 11 May 2026 announcement instead identifies on-screen Irish for the Tuesday and Thursday late repeats and Sunday omnibus, and on-screen English for the earlier Tuesday and Thursday transmission.
TG4’s June 2026 newsletter repeats the new arrangement. Keep those dates beside the instructions rather than treating both pages as simultaneous descriptions of one unchanged broadcast. The later programme-specific notices establish a change; the general page alone does not describe every edition after that announcement.
Identify the recording or transmission edition
Write down the episode date, whether it is an individual repeat or omnibus, and the actual transmission entry. The May notice names late repeats at 23:30 and the Sunday omnibus at 20:30, but those dated times should not be presented as an unchanging timetable for every future season. Check the current listing before setting a new recording.
For an existing recording, distinguish text embedded in the picture from selectable receiver captions. If its visible language follows the edition produced under the new arrangement, changing a subtitle preference may not remove that on-screen text. A recorded version’s history matters as well as the current receiver setting.
Use the player’s language options separately
The same May notice says Ros na Rún’s player episodes offer Irish and English subtitle choices. Check the chosen online episode directly instead of transferring a broadcast-repeat rule to its player controls. A digital episode and a receiver recording can offer different ways of displaying text even when they tell the same story.
If the expected language is absent, preserve the episode reference, the dated guidance used and whether you need embedded or optional text. That report makes a changed programme edition understandable and avoids calling a newer language arrangement a player fault. It also leaves the remaining uncertainty clear when a source describes a previous season or a timetable that has since moved.