Hi Mick31,
I'm a foreign national (Italian) who has been living in Ireland for quite a while. 3 years ago I purchased an apartment in Gleann Ribh in Lusk and I had a similar issue to yours concerning the installation of a satellite dish.
First of all I'd like to say that I'm in total agreement with all your posts. The fact that a contract has been signed which has a clause that prohibits the installation of a satellite dish is totally worthless since it violates basic human rights and it's in breach of the free movement of goods and services within the EU.
Secondly I have other interesting articles that you may want to read:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/cm/601/601591/601591en.pdf
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/cm/617/617113/617113en.pdf
In my case what happened is that my satellite dish was taken down 3 times by the management company of the apartments and in one case the satellite dish disappeared as well (so I reported the management company to the police).
I spoke to my solicitor about that and I showed her the same links that you posted in your first post but she said that since there was a clause in the contract she coudn't do anything about it. I got the impression that she only said that because she didn't want to get involved in a case like that and not because there was nothing that she could do.
I then spoke to a team of legal people in the company I work for who provides free legal advice to employees and again I showed them the same URLs of your first post stressing the fact that as a foreigh national living abroad I have a right to watch the programs from my own country. In addition I said that I was in the process of learning a foreign language (spanish) and I needed spanish TV to practice.
However I was told that those URLs refer only to press conferences and not to actual EU laws.
All in all no one wanted to take the responsability of pursuing this issue which is possibly very long and expensive (we are looking at EU high-court here with all the intermediate steps to get there - possibly 2-3 years before you get there and lots of money spent).
I'm sure though that if someone is willing to get to the bottom of this issue through the various stages of courts will succeed and either your management company let you have the satellite dish on your balcony or else the court would ask them to install a common satellite dish on the roof.
Now I have sold the apartment (for other reasons) and purchased a new one elsewhere which I haven't fully moved in yet. As soon as I move in I will install a satellite dish again.
If I can be of any help let me know. Although I'm not a lawyer I may be able to help from my own experience.
Thanks