Another weekend of Guinness Six Nations and another benchmark for how the Irish public has bought into this team.
The average viewing figure for the game on Sunday afternoon was 884,000, with another 164,590 live streams on Virgin media.
The same broadcaster drew in 297,700 of an average for the Scotland-France game on Saturday and 265,400 as well as 46,300 live streams for the U20 game between Ireland and Italy in Cork on Friday night.
Last year’s game against France was the first time that over 1 million had tuned into a Championship game and a full 22 percent ahead of the number that watched Ireland beat England for the Grand Slam in 2023.
Getting the same level of excitement for a game against Italy where Ireland are 30+ point favourites should normally be more challenging but not this year.
In 2022 the same fixture was the 20th most-watched sports event of the year with an average viewership of 495,900.
This year’s number is up an astonishing 77 percent on 2022 and would have been the most watched sporting event of that year.
Last year the number climbed to 648,000 but this is another realm again as regards engagement.
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