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HAVING DECIDED last week not to release Irish subscribers’ numbers as part of its first quarter results, BSkyB’s finance chief let the cat out of the bag at a subsequent meeting with analysts in London.

Its chief financial officer Andrew Griffiths said “just over 10 per cent” of the group’s net new customer additions in the three months to the end of June were in Ireland.