How to watch darts in Ireland

Sky Sports shows the PDC World Darts Championship in Ireland, along with the Premier League and the other big PDC events. The cheapest legal way to watch the whole World Championship is one NOW Sports Month membership, €38.99 at the standard price, bought in December and cancelled when the trophy is lifted.

Who shows the darts in Ireland?

• NOW All of it Review
  • €14.99/day pass A day pass covers one day of it.
  • €38.99/month

  Sky Sports Darts has the PDC World Championship (11 December 2026 to 3 January 2027) and the rest of the PDC calendar to 2030.

• Sky All of it Review
  • €45/month (12-month contract)

  Sky Sports Darts has the PDC World Championship (11 December 2026 to 3 January 2027) and the rest of the PDC calendar to 2030. Same channels, on a 12-month Sky contract.

Rights and prices checked 2026-09-19. Standard prices; intro offers can be lower.

Sky Sports, for the ones you have heard of. Sky’s deal with the PDC covers the UK and Ireland until 2030. Sky names the World Championship, the Premier League, the World Matchplay, the Grand Slam of Darts, the World Grand Prix and the World Cup of Darts, and says it adds up to more than 60 days of live darts a year.

In Ireland the Sky Sports channels are sold three ways, and they are the same channels each time: through NOW by the day or the month, through Sky as an add-on on a 12-month contract, or through Virgin Media as a premium pack. The Sky Sports price comparison lines them up.

ITV has a second, smaller set of PDC events in the UK: the World Masters, the UK Open, the European Championship, the Players Championship Finals and the World Series events, on ITV4, in a deal that runs to 2028. More on those below.

What is the cheapest way to watch the World Championship?

One month of NOW. The tournament runs for 24 days, from 11 December to 3 January. A NOW Sports Month membership runs for 30 days. Buy it on opening day and one payment covers every session through to the final. It rolls monthly, so cancel it once you’ve signed up and it simply stops at the end of the month.

The sums, at standard prices:

So two day passes beat the month, and three do not. If you’ll watch more than two nights, and at Christmas you will, buy the month.

A Sky contract for a darts tournament is €912 to watch three weeks of telly. If you already have Sky Sports for the football, grand, the darts is included. If you don’t, this is not the reason to start.

NOW also runs introductory offers on the Sports membership. They are cheaper per month. Some carry a 12-month minimum term, which is a lot of commitment for one tournament, and some don’t: on 10 November 2026 the no-contract offer was €22 a month. Read which is which before you buy. today’s NOW offers (official source, opens in a new tab)

One practical note: without NOW’s Boost add-on, the stream is 720p on one device. Boost is €5 a month. For a tournament watched on the big telly with the family arguing over the selection box, it may be worth the fiver.

Is any darts free to watch in Ireland?

Not the World Championship. That is Sky Sports only, and there is no free-to-air row for darts in our rights records.

The ITV events are a different story. ITV shows them on ITV4, and ITV4 HD is one of the channels broadcast free on satellite. A dish in Ireland pointed at the right satellite picks it up with no subscription and no card. Our free satellite channels page explains the kit, and a combo box takes the dish and a Saorview aerial together.

Next up on that list is the Players Championship Finals in Minehead, 27 to 29 November 2026, then the World Masters in Milton Keynes, 27 to 31 January 2027. Check the ITV4 listings nearer the time for the session times. the PDC calendar (official source, opens in a new tab)

ITV also streams its darts on ITVX. ITV says ITVX can only be used in the UK, so in the Republic the broadcast channel through a dish is the route, not the app.

When is the darts on?

The next twelve months, with who has what.

A few things about this year’s World Championship. It has 128 players. It moves into Alexandra Palace’s Great Hall for the first time, which holds over 5,200. There is no darts from 24 to 27 December. And the final is on a Sunday, 3 January, for the first time. Session times and the draw are on the PDC’s own site. the PDC calendar (official source, opens in a new tab)

The broadcaster column for 2027 follows the two deals above: Sky’s to 2030, ITV’s to 2028.

What about the Premier League and the rest of the year?

Same trick, more months. The Premier League runs from 4 February to 27 May 2027. Four NOW Sports months in a row, starting on opening night, cover all 17 nights: 4 × €38.99 = €155.96. Seventeen day passes would be 17 × €14.99 = €254.83, so the months win unless you only follow a handful of nights.

The World Championship plus the whole Premier League is five months: 5 × €38.99 = €194.95. Let it lapse after the final in January and start again on 4 February. That is the entire trick with a rolling membership: you pay for the months with darts in them, and not for the ones without.

If you’re paying for Sky Sports in those months anyway, you already have most of the Premier League football, the Formula 1 and the golf. The darts is a free rider.

What do you need to watch it?

• For Sky Sports through NOW: broadband and the NOW app, on a smart TV, a console or a streaming stick.
• For ITV4: a satellite dish and a free-to-air or combo box. If there’s an old dish on the wall already, you may be most of the way there.

Want the darts and something else besides? The finder adds it up and puts the cheapest legal option first. One hundred and eighty reasons to watch, one payment of €38.99. Game on.