Pub gets red card for illegal showing of Sky soccer games

A judge gave one of Dublin’s most famous pubs a red card yesterday for the unlawful showing of live Premier League soccer matches.
Pub gets red card for illegal showing of Sky soccer games

A Sky UK manager, Karen Anderson, told the Circuit Civil Court that the Long Island Bar, also known as Joxer Daly’s, in Upper Dorset Street, Dublin, did not have a Clubs and Pubs Licence to broadcast live sport.

Barrister Gareth Hayden, who appeared with solicitors Eugene F Collins for Sky UK, told Judge Jacqueline Linnane that Edward Walsh, who trades as Long Island Bar and Joxer Daly’s, had infringed Sky’s broadcasting copyright.

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