Walt Disney offered to buy Sky News to help Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox win over UK regulators reviewing Fox’s £11.7bn (€13.3bn) acquisition of broadcaster Sky.

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.