27-05-2024, 11:16 PM
Yes.
Setanta was sold to eir in 2016, and it became eir Sport. As well as carrying Premier Sports programmes on eir Sport 2, they also still distributed BT Sport and Boxnation at that point.
Premier Sports entered the Irish market in its own right in August 2019, and on the same day, Sky took over the wholesale deal with TNT Sports (we discussed what happened to Box Nation a few pages back). At that point eir Sport 2 became a separate channel, but was almost entirely repeats. Eir then did a very short lived cross licensing deal with Virgin Media for their sports channel, which replaced eir Sport 2 on some platforms, but that fell apart quickly due to wider issues between the two companies.
After that Covid hit, and eir took a decision to wind down eir sport and stopped bidding for rights and renewing deals. Its last remaining rights were the Pro 14, and it closed down after the short lived Rainbow Cup final in 2021.
Setanta was sold to eir in 2016, and it became eir Sport. As well as carrying Premier Sports programmes on eir Sport 2, they also still distributed BT Sport and Boxnation at that point.
Premier Sports entered the Irish market in its own right in August 2019, and on the same day, Sky took over the wholesale deal with TNT Sports (we discussed what happened to Box Nation a few pages back). At that point eir Sport 2 became a separate channel, but was almost entirely repeats. Eir then did a very short lived cross licensing deal with Virgin Media for their sports channel, which replaced eir Sport 2 on some platforms, but that fell apart quickly due to wider issues between the two companies.
After that Covid hit, and eir took a decision to wind down eir sport and stopped bidding for rights and renewing deals. Its last remaining rights were the Pro 14, and it closed down after the short lived Rainbow Cup final in 2021.