The Irish Text Relay Service (ITRS) translates text into voice and voice into text to facilitate a person with a hearing disability in making and receiving calls in the Republic of Ireland. Calls are relayed through ITRS agents who perform this translation. The service is available 24 hours a day. ITRS customers can make and receive text relay calls through a range of PC or mobile media devices, this new service is a supplement to the existing Minicom service.<\/p>\n
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The ITRS service is available to customers of Eir, Sky, Tesco Mobile, Three, Virgin Media and Vodafone and is funded by each of these operators.<\/p>\n
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To use the ITRS app you must first register the phone number you will be using to make and receive calls on the app. Go to www.itrs.ie<\/a> and click on the section \u201cHow do I use it\u201d to find the details of how to register. Once registered you can then dial 1800 207 900 on your registered phone. The ITRS website offers a step by step guide. Also, Irish Deaf Society has a vlog on \u201cHow to use the Text Relay Service\u201d at https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IrishDeafSociety\/videos\/1338305606289544\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can connect directly to ITRS for use on your PC or Laptop at www.itrs.ie<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can download the ITRS app from the iOS App Store and the Android Google Play Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Irish Text Relay Service (ITRS) translates text into voice and voice into text to facilitate a person with a hearing disability in making and … <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":105139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consumer-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t