Ireland

The Global Tote, a subsidiary of sports-betting provider TopBetta, has acquired rights for UK and Irish greyhound-racing coverage.

Irish commercial broadcaster TV3 has acquired rights for England’s national team football qualifiers ahead of the 2018 Fifa World Cup in Russia.

Irish pay-television broadcaster Eir Sport has acquired a new package of rights for the Gaelic Athletic Association’s Football and Hurling Club Championship under a five-year deal.

Anthem Sports & Entertainment, owners of Impact Wrestling, have agreed a deal for the US wrestling series to be televised exclusively by the Spike channel in the UK and Ireland.

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has made its first move into the esports sector by acquiring rights to the Fifa Ultimate Team Championship Series.

Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ and pay-television broadcaster Eir Sport have acquired rights for the 2017 Women’s Rugby World Cup.

US organisation TNA Wrestling has launched a new viewing application for fans in the UK and Ireland.

Irish commercial broadcaster TV3 has entered into a long-term rights partnership with Racecourse Media Group, the holding company responsible for a range of media and data rights involving 34 of the UK’s premier racecourses.

The Pro12 pan-European rugby union club competition has appointed Dermot Rigley as its new commercial director.

Ireland’s Gaelic Athletic Association has struck fresh domestic and overseas broadcast deals under new five-year agreements through which the organisation will retain its digital clip rights.

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has extended its long-running commitment to the Africa Cup of Nations in the UK and Ireland by acquiring broadcast and digital rights to the 2017 and 2019 editions of the national team football tournament.

Pan-European pay-television broadcast group Sky is becoming more selective about what sports rights it seeks as it focuses more on entertainment content amid shifting viewing habits, according to chief executive Jeremy Darroch.

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has acquired rights to the Italian rugby union team’s upcoming autumn international Test matches.

Ireland’s Gaelic Athletic Association is set to strike a five-year extension to its rights deals with public-service broadcaster RTÉ and pay-television broadcaster Sky, according to the Irish Independent.

European Professional Club Rugby, the organising body of the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup competitions, has said it will seek to strike a free-to-air rights deal in Ireland after conceding that the current broadcast model is not “working very well”.

Irish pay-television broadcaster Eir Sport has acquired rights to next month’s rugby union Test match between Ireland and New Zealand, which will be staged in the US city of Chicago.