You will be able to record from the SCART input, connected to the Chorus box, and watch an analogue channel (the "basic" channels i.e. RTE1, RTE2, UTV, C4, BBC1/2, etc., but not Discovery, Sky etc.) using the DVD recorder's built in analogue tuner.
Freeview - digital tuner for terrestrial digital TV broadcasts in the UK - is not any use in most of the republic as the signal can't be received here.