General Race Thread 2026 **spoilers**

At the risk of getting banned for being some sort of evangelist shill, I keep coming back to recommending Tiz.
I paid the subscriptions for Eurosport back in the day, GCN+ (RIP 😥), and most recently, a shared Discovery+ (UK) sub via a VPN.
The Eurosport online product was great, GCN+ was beyond excellent, and Discovery+ was, well…, pretty much everything was there, but the online interface was abysmal and the cost was exorbitant.
My UK relative got the D+ sub on an introductory offer, but when they whacked it up to full price we couldn't justify it. Especially as we were comparing their pitiful product against what we used to have from GCN+.
They also only provided the 'as-broadcast' feeds, complete with advert breaks, for the ridiculous subscription fee!
Feck that!

As an experiment to see how it worked, and with the (reluctant!) fallback of D+ if it didn't work out, we decided to try Tiz for a few months.
It has worked out just fine, and unless/until someone comes up with a legit cycling-only subscription model for this market along the lines of the excellent service we had from GCN+, for a reasonable fee, we'll be sticking with Tiz for the foreseeable future.

Tiz isn't perfect by any means: there's no live-rewind or pause during live feeds, and the on-demand feeds only go up the morning after the day of the event, but we work around that. We rarely watch much live here anyway, so it's easy enough the just defer viewing until the next day, and unless an Irish rider does something remarkable, we're very unlikely to be 'spoiled' by the Irish press.
The Tiz online interface is somewhat clunky, but once you get the hang of how stuff is laid out, it's easy enough to navigate.
There's no sign-in account, for want of a better description, so it doesn't 'remember' where you were and the on-demand feeds restart from the beginning if you don't finish the race in one sitting or if you switch to a different device. It means remembering where you were in the feed when you go back to it, but that's not an insurmountable difficulty.
It may or may not play nice with ad-blockers, so that needs a bit of experimentation.

On the up-side, Tiz runs entirely in a browser, so there's no app to install and it appears to run fine on every browser and device I've tried it on: Chrome, Brave, Firefox, Amazon Silk, on PC, Android phone and streaming box (Formuler), and Firestick.
It seems to have everything provided by Eurosport/Discovery with English commentary advert-free, and loads of smaller/more obscure stuff from local broadcasters with local language commentary, of course.
And as a delightful little bonus, on the Grand Tour and Monuments coverage, they use the proper advert-free stream complete with on-site pitwalks and interviews, and NOT that studio Breakaway utter bolloxology!

TLDR: Tiz works great for dedicated cycling coverage, given that no one appears to be interested in providing a proper cycling subscription service for the Irish market.

Also you can get TNT sports (4 channels) as an add on to Sky, .."Sports extra" package with the 2 Premier sports channels, i got them as an extra (intro offer) when i switched from Virgin last year..got an email recently saying they weren't going to up the price…must check the billing… can sometimes get streaming and catch up on SKY Go…but not really On demand as they were on GCN+ and Discovery+