Eir Sport 2


eir Sport 2 is an Irish pay television channel owned by Setanta Sports Channel Ireland.
The channel carries coverage of association football, boxing, golf, motorsport, and coverage of the SSE Airtricity League.
On 16 December 2013 Setanta Sports launched a high-definition of Setanta Sports 1. Setanta Sports 1 HD was first exclusively available through Virgin Media Ireland, but later launched on Sky on 20 July 2015, along with Premier Sports HD.
On 15 August 2019, eir Sport and Virgin Media Sport contracted a deal to show Virgin Media Sport on eir Vision and eir Sport 1 on Virgin Media Ireland.

Broadcast rights

Most of these air on both Setanta Ireland and Setanta Sports 1 and are shared between the two channels. In some instances Setanta only possess Republic of Ireland rights, during such programming the channel is unavailable in Northern Ireland. Conversely, live coverage of GAA Championship matches is available only in Northern Ireland and not the Republic.

Club football

Setanta's major in-house programme is The Sports Show which airs daily. It also simulcasts the radio show Off The Ball from Newstalk.

Setanta Sports Cup

Setanta was the sponsor of the Setanta Sports Cup, an annual soccer tournament which featured teams from the League of Ireland and Irish Football League.

Availability

As of July 2016 in the Republic of Ireland, the Eir Sport Package is available for free to any Eir broadband customer. This includes the BT Sport package. Additionally the Eir Sport Package is available on Eir TV, Virgin Media Ireland, Sky Ireland and Vodafone TV. Eir Sport offers commercial venues in Ireland programming of sports such as football, Gaelic football, hurling, golf, cricket, rugby union and rugby league and boxing.
On 12 September 2019, eir Sport 2 was removed from Sky in Ireland and was replaced by Virgin Media Sport.