The figures for rugby are consistently higher actually.
The Hungary game was nearly 200k below the top rated rugby fixture that year and that was a bumper game.
What your shock shows really is how there is a coterie of pale, male and stale types on this website. There’s a New Ireland out there.
The ratings simply must be a cod. More or less every child and adult in the country from old and new Ireland was watching that soccer match.
Soccer is so much more popular than rugby it’s not even any type of serious debate. Why would this not translate to TV viewers?
My local gaa club was absolutely wedged on Thursday night and there’s never usually a sinner in it.
I didn’t say that.
Firstly the streams are not average. It’s clicked in once. It’s a RTÉ reported figure from their own platform- there are many ways to stream.
Secondly the 1.37m does include the average from those streaming through the tv. Thats a fact and I’ve given you how TAM do it.
So the addition of the two numbers is inaccurate and wrong. Another factor not being discussed here is that the 2023 rugby game was also available on UTV/ITV in the South through various platforms. This remains hugely watched.
Again, you are just revealing the mono cultural bubble you live in.
I never said rugby was more popular, I stated factually that the national team is though.
The cultural element of your argument is ridiculous. Sure none of the other cultures who live in Ireland now have any interest in rugby or as we’ve discussed before gaa for that matter.
Says you. You are arguing with cold hard data.
This goes from the tv audiences to attendances, sponsorship deals, player profiles etc.
Again, yes football is more popular on an ongoing basis with a lot of lads like yourself engrossed by the EPL but the proof is in the pudding between the national teams.
Do we have any ratings for our friends up north & their play-off encounter versus Italy? You’d really need to adopt a shared island approach & add their ratings to get a combined football tally.
ive put up the ratings
2.5m for the football, 1.6m for the rugby – thats from RTE
Was the vm2 figures included?
no, not included
Can you amend the algorithm to include the additional viewership on dodgy boxes and in pubs, clubs and brothels
Those ratings are monstrously high.
That’s a serious flex 
As they would say on TFK…is there a trophy for that
Hearsay and conjecture your honour
As someone who played both sports at the highest level possible - Rubby for the British Lions and Limerick United in the Pat Grace Famous Fried Chicken League, I’d take Tony as the definitive expert on the matter
I was delighted to see all the rugby fans get behind the soccer team.
I’d hold the posters changing their avatars to yossi Benayoun or whatever that Liverpool player is called two days before our biggest game in a decade as responsible for our defeat on Thursday along with the posters who were cheering against Ireland in the six nations too.
Bad karma and all that.
Tremendous wumming on show in here from dimmy. Rubby is the new snooker or darts… no one really gives two shits about it bar a very small pool. There’s about 90k people playing it… the house wives and upwardly mobile middle class wimmin wont be long dropping it for the next thing.
Serious marketing tho. The soccer boys could learn a thing from them. Just a shame it’s not transferring into playing numbers for the rubby boys. Soccer ball and GAA remain kings in the new Ireland.
He got me lovely in fairness, the cunt.
If the soccer boys were playing in a big tournament the country would shut down. Days off work. Schools shut. No one allowed die.
The hungry game was only a qualifying game of a Thursday night and set national records.
Dem pesky rubby boys dont have to worry about wrestling 3 kids at bed time of a school night while the game is on… bar their WC all their games are prime viewing time on a weekend when housewives and upwardly mobile wimmin can cash in on the cultural capital it provides