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A Premier buy back and reintegration would probably be best from the POV of the Dublin based staff, tbh.

An issue for Sky and TNT is that they’re both set up as U.K. and Ireland wide operations - the only difference in Sky’s channels is adverts, while TNT’s channels are identical. They are also both essentially linear based. Viaplay’s rights are mostly U.K. only, and while that wouldn’t rule out Sky or TNT, it would mean that they’d have to establish delivery channels to the U.K. only while not affecting ROI viewers. TNT does have the discovery+ option for this, though I’d suspect that might draw the wrath of UEFA if their content is tucked away from the main channels on a streaming only service.

DAZN may well see this as an opportunity, and while they also operate a single service for U.K. and Ireland, they could probably split it more easily than Sky or TNT could given they are streaming first effectively with one linear service.

Closing the service will be a disaster for some of the rights holders involved - the URC in particular could find itself with no main rights holder in Scotland, though I dare say BBC NI might be willing at the right price to step in for Ulster games. Seemingly the SPFL and/or SFA may already have received their rights fee for the remainder of the contract, I’m not clear on that aspect but it might prevent a financial disaster for the governing body albeit it won’t help the viewer.