The regular season began on 7 March and concluded on 14 November. Each team played the other teams three times, totaling 33 games.
Bohemians finished the season as champions, winning by a margin of nineteen points. There was no promotion/relegation play-off between Premier Division and
First Division teams. This was because the
2009 Premier Division would be reduced to 10 clubs. This saw three clubs relegated out of the Premier Division. For the first time in the history of the league the national broadcaster
Raidió Teilifís Éireann started showing highlights of every Premier Division game played on its new show
Monday Night Soccer. This show was presented by
Con Murphy. This replaced
eircom League Weekly which had run on
TV3 on Monday nights from 2002 to 2007. The final season of live weekly radio coverage was provided by national broadcaster RTÉ with live reports and commentary on match nights, which was dropped from the end of 2008. Live games were shown by RTÉ,
Setanta Sports and
TG4's
Sacar Beo. ==Final table==