Sky seeks €38k over pub’s ‘unlawful broadcasting’

Sky TV is seeking up to €38,000 “aggravated and exemplary damages” against a Dublin pub it claims has ignored court orders restraining unlawful broadcasting of Sky Sports coverage of rugby, soccer, and GAA matches.

Elizabeth J Walsh, for Sky, told the Circuit Civil Court that Molloy’s Pub on Talbot St continued to ignore orders restraining it from showing Sky programmes without a licence.

Ms Walshtold Judge Jacqueline Linnane that in 2014 Sky had obtained judgment against Molloy’s and injunctions restraining any further breach of copyright.