Call to cut soccer viewing costs as Sky pays less

Ireland’s leading consumer advocate has called on Sky to cut the costs of premiership soccer subscriptions after it emerged it will pay 16% less per game in the latest auction of English Premier League rights, write Eamon Quinn, Joe Mayes and David Hellier.

However, Dermott Jewell, policy adviser at the Consumers’ Association of Ireland, said shareholders will likely be the main winners, despite Sky also tapping the huge surge in the value of the euro against sterling since mid-2016, to boost profits from the business it does in the Republic.