[Gallunach]

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.

There's plenty of people around the border and on the east coast ( especially Wexford where virtually every house has one aerial pointing inland and another pointing seaward )  where tying it to a service like sky won't fix the issue .

Set up an Irish portal for iplayer or sub licence it to someone in the Irish streaming market already with an option just for iplayer content or people will just continue to get a VPN and the BBC  get nothing