How to watch the Premier League in Ireland

The Premier League is the one that makes grown adults wince at a bill. It also has the most legal routes, so the maths is worth doing properly.

Who has it this season

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

  Sky Sports shows most of the live Premier League games in Ireland, 2025/26 to 2028/29, including Friday and Monday nights.

• NOW Some of it Review
  • €14.99/day pass A day pass covers one day of it.
  • €33.99/month

  TNT Sports has the Saturday 12.30 slot and Premier Sports has an Ireland-only Saturday 3pm game each round.

• Sky Some of it Review
  • €34/month (12-month contract)

  TNT Sports has the Saturday 12.30 slot and Premier Sports has an Ireland-only Saturday 3pm game each round. Same channels, as a Sky add-on on a 12-month contract.

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

  Sky Sports shows most of the live Premier League games in Ireland, 2025/26 to 2028/29, including Friday and Monday nights. Same channels, on a 12-month Sky contract.

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

Three broadcasters split the live rights in Ireland from 2025/26 to 2028/29. Sky Sports has the bulk of it: most of the weekend fixtures and the Friday and Monday nights. TNT Sports has the Saturday 12.30 slot. Premier Sports has an Ireland-only package: one Saturday 3pm kick-off every round, on Premier Sports 1. The Premier League’s own broadcaster list names the three. Prime Video has nothing in Ireland this cycle.

The good news for your wallet is that TNT Sports and Premier Sports come bundled together in Ireland, as the Sports Extra pack on Sky, the Sports Extra membership on NOW, or one add-on on Virgin Media. You never need to buy them separately.

The cheapest way to watch most of it

Buy Sky Sports by the month, not by the year. A NOW Sports Month membership gets you every Sky Sports channel with no contract, so you pay for August to May and cancel for the summer. That covers roughly four games in every five.

If you only care about your own team, look at the fixture list first. A Sports Day membership covers 24 hours of Sky Sports for a one-off game, and a Sports Extra Day membership does the same for the TNT and Premier Sports games. Two day passes a month is cheaper than a monthly membership; three is not.

Add the Sports Extra membership only if the Saturday lunchtime game and the 3pm game matter to you. For most people they do not, and it nearly doubles the monthly bill. One sum to do before you buy: NOW’s intro offers change monthly and usually carry a 12-month minimum term, but twelve months at an intro price can come to less than ten at the full price. The table above shows both prices; the NOW review has the small print.

The full Sky contract only makes sense if you want Sky’s entertainment channels all year too. Otherwise you are paying for July.

What’s free

Nothing, live. No Irish free-to-air channel holds any Premier League rights for 2026/27, so Saorview won’t help here, and we could not find an Irish highlights programme either.

BBC One Northern Ireland, which carries Match of the Day, is listed as available in the Republic on Sky and Virgin Media boxes and through a free satellite dish. BBC iPlayer does not work in the Republic, so do not plan around it.

The calendar

• Friday 21 August 2026: season starts.
• 33 weekends and five midweek rounds.
• Sunday 30 May 2027: final day, all ten games on Sky Sports.
• The rights deal runs to the end of 2028/29, so next season’s split is the same.

That’s it. Ten months of NOW, a few day passes, and a summer with your money still in your pocket. Sort me out with the finder, or go straight to the source.

Read the NOW review first, pick a streaming stick if your TV does not run the app, and see the watch index for everything else.

More sums: what Sky Sports costs in Ireland compares Sky, NOW and Virgin, and all the football prices the Premier League, Champions League and League of Ireland together.