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The bbc is setting up a limited on demand service for sky Ireland. Presumably for streaming dr who as the Disney plus deal does not apply to Ireland.

It’s been in place a while now - since March - but is basically catch up and it’s not exhaustive (or wasn’t anyway when I had Sky - the news wasn’t even on it, although I’m given to understand they’ve sorted Match of the Day now which is the most asked). The rationale has nothing to do with Doctor Who - it’s to facilitate Sky Stream’s playlist feature and was apparently asked for by the BBC in preference to enabling cloud recording on their channels.

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I have read some Irish fans are very disappointed at the new Disney+ deal as it didn't cover them - I believe the BBC forgot, that even though BBC One is available in the Republic of Ireland on Sky, Freesat, Virgin Media Ireland, Eir TV and Vodafone TV but not their streaming service BBC iPlayer. 

Hopefully if this new on demand service is launched, it might fix this issue.

The BBC don’t forget things like that! 

There is quite a bit of disappointment as we’re one of the few countries in the English speaking world Doctor Who can’t be streamed - it was on Netflix for about a decade but pulled at the same time as it was in the UK (Netflix operates a virtually identical catalogue in UK and Ireland).