Virgin customers to lose BT Sport and eir Sport

Television, phone, and broadband provider Virgin Media has announced that from August it will no longer broadcast the BT sports or Eir sports channels to its customers.

The move comes less than a fortnight after Eir announced it would make eir Sport — formally Setanta — and BT Sport channels free for all its broadband customers.

“We can confirm that we will be dropping eir Sport at the end of this month,” a spokesperson confirmed yesterday.