Hadn't seen this posted. The free Sky Mobile TV app available in the App Store (the app itself is free, but there's a subscription) for the Republic of Ireland. Download and it'll redirect you to sign up page on Sky. It's €7 a month and you get Sky Sports 1, 2, 3, Xtra along with Sky Sports News, Sky News, At The Races and ESPN! Quality is reasonable to good with live pausing and an option to rewind 30 seconds. Also it's a month to month subscription so you can try it out for 30 days.
Have you used it for watching a match or anything? Any chance you could post a screenshot of it in action?
I just subscribed to this this week as well. Watched a bit of the arsenal match on it in the car the other night. V good quality once it eventually loads. About 40 second delay behind what you see on tv tho. Worth a trial