Following successful legal action taken by Sky, a licensee in Donegal, Ireland, has been ordered to pay €16,188 in damages for infringing Sky’s copyright by showing Sky Sports programming illegally in their premises. A permanent court injunction prohibiting the licensee from showing Sky programming in the premises without the correct commercial viewing agreement from Sky […]
Coimisiún na Meán, Ireland’s newly-established media regulator and media development agency, has set out its work programme for the coming nine months. Highlights include: For the first time, online service providers will have legally binding obligations to take steps that make the Internet safer for everyone. Regulation will be extended to cover on-demand services, as […]
Virgin Media Ireland is launching 2Gbps fibre broadband in towns including Tralee, Killarney and Letterkenny, and continuing fibre network upgrades in areas such as Dublin, Cork and Louth. It says this is a milestone in its three-year transition to a full fibre network: at the end of 2021, it pledged to invest €200 million to […]
ITV, Adylic, OMD and Tourism Ireland have partnered to create a brand-new data-driven dynamic creative campaign on ITVX using Planet V, ITV’s programmatic video advertising platform, which will tailor the messaging that viewers see based on selected ITVX audience and contextual data sets. This is the first time that the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster has […]
Filming has commenced in Dublin, Ireland, on the second season of The Tourist, for BBC One and iPlayer, in association with Stan, ZDF and All3Media International. The six-part thriller which is created and written by Jack and Harry Williams, is produced by Two Brothers Pictures (Baptiste, The Missing, Fleabag). Joining the BAFTA and Golden Globe […]
Prime Video will launch its first Irish Original series, LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland, which will be hosted by the globally renowned presenter Graham Norton. The series will be filmed entirely in Ireland and will be available exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide in 2024. Norton commented: “I’m thrilled […]
Hidden Door Productions and Bulldog Film Distribution have confirmed that their upcoming romantic music-drama, Love Without Walls, will be released in UK & Irish cinemas from June 9th, alongside special Q&A screenings with Director Jane Gull and lead actors Niall McNamee and Shana Swash. This news is fresh from the film’s World Premiere at Manchester Film […]
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has announced a slate of new and returning shows in the UK & Ireland, which will be released on discovery+ and across its linear networks in 2023 and 2024. Richard Hammond, together with his team at the Smallest Cog, will be returning to the Workshop for third and fourth seasons of […]
The BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated An Irish Goodbye is to receive its television premiere on BBC iPlayer and BBC Northern Ireland. The short film is available now on BBC iPlayer and will be broadcast on BBC One NI on March 12th at 10.30pm, just ahead of the 95th Academy Awards, where is it nominated in the […]
BT Group has officially reopened its Riverside Tower building at Lanyon Place, in the heart of Belfast, following a multi-million pound refurbishment. The refubished location will now be home to around 2,000 colleagues from BT Group, which includes EE, BT Business and Openreach. Belfast was named as a significant long-term location for BT Group in […]