Get an aerial and stick it into the back of the TV and do an auto search of the stations via the tv menu. You should be able to get the basic channels. BBC, TV3 , UTV etc
Also, if you cancel chorus - take the card out of the Chorus box you can still get RTE 1 with the box.
I have been disconnected from Chorus for the last couple of months and I can still get this channel and 1 or 2 others, but everything else I cannot get !
try cutting the ftype end off the chorus cable, and put a tv end on, should work. If they didnt come to collect the equipment its unlikely they cut or capped the cable....Yet....