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Massive issues with Premier Sports in Ireland as the St Stephen’s / Boxing Day football begins - it seems a problem with the encryption settings has meant that satellite customers (both domestic and commercial) cannot see Brentford v Spurs - channel is still working on other platforms including Sky Go and Now.

Edit: fixed basically as I wrote the above. No explanations or apologies to paying customers, of course, from the channel that has no website or social media presence.

Edit 2: Far from the only problem on Premier today, with a commentary problem during Villa v Liverpool followed by a crash to a “Back Soon” slide during Arsenal v West Ham. While the game was in play. They have not done their reputation any favours with the amount of technical glitches suffered on basically their biggest day of the year, when they get the Premier League to themselves instead of being the intermission between bigger games on BT and Sky.

As for the studio, it was world feed coverage on the earlier games but Eoin McDevitt, Neil Lennon, and Kenny Cunningham did appear for the later games and noticeably there were no wide shots of the set.