The AIB GAA Club Championship Finals on Sunday have been widely reported on as being two brilliant games and today we can reveal just how many people were watching as Storm Isha tore up the country.
At their peaks, the Football match drew an audience of 344,900 and the hurling 316,300.
The average viewership across the whole of each game was 263,500 for the win of Watty Graham’s Glen and 182,700 for that of St Thomas’s.
Ton put this in context the highlight of TG4’s programming in 2023 was the Allianz Football Final clash between Galway and Mayo on GAA Beo, emerging as the most-watched sports show show of the year garnering an average an average audience of 250,200 viewers.
So Sunday’s game drew a bigger audience in absolute terms which must count as a big win for the GAA, the club game in general and AIB as the long-term sponsors.
The conditions outside will have had something to do with it as well. it was not a day for heading out for any long country walks.
It was a 26.2 per cent share of all those watching TV at the time which is less than last year’s top of 32 percent but still a brilliant figure.
Again for context, the peak viewing audience is more than 80- times the population of Maghera where Glen are based.
TG4’s GAA and LGFA production comes from the Nemeton team at the other end of the country in County Waterford. Everyone involved can be very well satisfied at some weekend of reach into the homes and hearts of the Irish public.
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