Talk:Irish Film Classification Office

message: Can anyone comfirm that the IFCO never rated games? I recall seeing IFCO 18 rating stickers stuck over the BBFC ratings on a certain game (probably one of the Grand Theft Auto games), but I suppose it is possible that they were just stuck on them by the retailers or distributors to make them look like legally-binding ratings.
Also, how long have IFCO ratings been around on home video formats? I seem to not recall seeing them on any tapes until the mid-90s - before that I just remember BBFC ratings. This does raise the question of how local productions (such as RTÉ videos) were rated... --Zilog Jones 01:38, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Video Recordings Act 1989 gave IFCO power over video tapes - before that BBFC ratings were on tapes here. Presumably RTÉ videos would also (and continue to be) have been BBFC rated, or they couldn't be sold in NI. --Rdd 20:30, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The principal legislation in the UK allows a number of exemptions apparently ("2. Exempted works"), could be worth checking. Djegan 23:28, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

text: According to GAME head office, and IFCO, GAME took 'spare' stickers off the DVD's they used to sell and put them over the BBFC stickers to give the staff more power to try and stop kids buying games. However, they were breaking the law... --Kiand 07:20, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think (well actually I KNOW, I'm just trying not to sound like a know-it-all) that the shops are either too stupid or too lazy to use PEGI stickers. For instance the game Destroy All Humans was rated by BBFC as 15 and by PEGI as 12+ and you can confirm Ireland's rating is the PEGI one, yet I've seen (in more than one shop) them not just using an IFCO label, but using a 15 IFCO label. Although, now that the BBFC seem to rating nearly all new games, I think some shops have copped on to using the right ones (I saw a HMV in Dublin with a game relabeled with a PEGI cert.) - Gerbon689 09:59, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: But PEGI ratings aren't legally binding in Ireland, IIRC. Either way, its irrelevant to me, as my days of needing to challenge managers about 15/18's games are gone; although I will still refuse ID if its asked for.... --Kiand 11:50, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

text: The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was move. —Nightstallion (?) 09:43, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Older posts

message: Would I be correct in assuming that shops do actually have the right to enforce PEGI ratings when selling? The article currently makes it sound like they're not even allowed to if they want. But are they? I think they are. Someone know forsure? - RedHot 08:39, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Only under the standard "right to reserve admission" rules. Most of them back down extremely quickly when you mention age discrimination. --Kiand 09:13, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh. It's never come up for me, although I have attempted to buy games above my age, they've never tried to stop me. Same with DVDs; when I was 12 (yes I'm not exaggerating) I managed to buy a 15 DVD in Golden Discs, no questions asked, so I'm not too surprised they'd back down. - RedHot 08:33, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

text: It wouldn't qualify as age discrimination, as the Equal Status Act says discrimination on the age ground doesn't count if you are discriminating in favour of or against someone under 18. 193.95.165.190 14:52, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ratings on Video Games 

message: Is there any way to redo the linking so that one searching for another IFCO isn't automatically sent here without having the option of going to a disambiguation page? Even just a link at the top of the article like other ones. It's kind of annoying to actually have to search and find it through obscure means. 216.191.40.149 19:15, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation 

message: so is this "no longer used", or is it "not to be confused with an obsolete certificate, as it is still issued."?  There is an inconsistency in the article Farannan 05:39, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's no longer used. 193.95.165.190 14:51, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  12RA 

message: Well, the argument should be solved now. The office of Official Censor of Films, trading as the Irish Film Censor's Office, has been renamed legally to the Irish Film Classification Office under the newly commenced Civil Law (Miscellanious Provisions) Act 2008.  So the trading name and the legal name are now the same. --Rdd (talk) 18:58, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Name revisited

message: I am striking out the section entitled "Relationship with the BBFC" as the section does not describe the relationship (if any) between the BBFC and the IFCO, and instead amounts to little more then an observation that the packaging of English language Region 2 videos sometimes has the UK and Irish certificates alongside each other, while at other times the Irish certificate will be a sticker placed over the BBFC rating logo. The only referenced point in the section is a memo from the BBFC's website regarding the labeling of videos available for sale in the UK which points out that videos on sale in the UK should not carry an Irish certificate alongside a British one where the Irish rating permits supply to those of a lower age then the British one. This point is not relevant to Ireland or the IFCO, and consequently the section belongs on the BBFC wiki page (but it is such a minor point I doubt it warrants inclusion there either). Rubensni (talk) 16:35, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Relationship with BBFC" section 

message: What is the Ireland rating for the Nicole Kidman movie The Others?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:0:8500:472:8511:1939:4FB5:500 (talk) 20:30, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Others 

message: I have a recollection of reading, years ago in this article, about the reason for the introduction of the 16 certificate and the re branding of 12PG and 15PG to 12A and 15A. Apparently the film Bad Santa received complaints from parents, unaware of the film's adult content, who brought their children to see the film which was rated 15PG in cinemas. When I recently rented the film on Blu-ray I found the Irish 18 logo on the disc. I still feel this information is relevant to the article if it caused IFCO to review the cinema certificates. A similar discussion has appeared on the talk page to the Bad Santa article but the (currently) sole contributor is having problems finding reliable sources to this. Tk420 (talk) 20:31, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I now also seem to recall reading that most of the complaints about the rating of Bad Santa were made to cinemas and talk shows while IFCO only received two complaints.Tk420 (talk) 11:21, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reason for introduction of 16 certificate 

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