It has been 30 years since England's 'Big Five' (Arsenal, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham) led a breakaway from the Football League to rebrand the division as the Premier League.
The Premier League has never looked back.
But there was no drop-off in Irish Premier League interest either.
Over the next three seasons, international rights will be worth over £5.05 billion (€6 billion).
The Premier League has not seduced all Irish football supporters of course.
Money talks, and the Premier League has had a megaphone to its lips for years now.
It has snowballed to the point where the Premier League is blowing everyone else out of the water financially; even finishing bottom in the league this season will earn a club £106m.
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