Interactive services and 7-day EPG use the proprietary OpenTV system, with set-top boxes including modems for a return path.

Sky News, amongst other channels, provides a pseudo-video on demand interactive service by broadcasting looping video streams.

There are tight controls over use of VideoGuard decoders; they are not available as stand-alone DVB CAMs (conditional-access modules).

What section of the EPG a channel gets allocated is determined by rules set up by Sky Ireland.

Any channel which can get carriage on a suitable beam of a satellite at 28° East is entitled to access to Sky's EPG for a fee.

However, even in this case, Sky does not carry any control over the channel's content or carriage issues such as picture quality.

Channels on this list are owned by Sky and broadcast advertising specifically for the Irish market.

Welsh-language station S4C was carried by Sky Ireland for many years where its rugby union broadcasts were popular despite the language barrier; it was removed from the EPG on August 9th 2018 due to rights issues.

As Sky's broadband and phone services use the existing telephone network (LLU and non-LLU) and is widely available as a result.

Sky Ireland has offered fibre broadband, using the network of former incumbent, eir, with speeds of up to 100 Mbit/s since 26 December 2014.