OVER ONE MILLION viewers tuned in to watch the 2024 All-Ireland SFC final on RTÉ, the broadcaster has announced.
A peak audience of 1,085,400 watched Armagh end a 22-year wait to lift Sam Maguire following a tense battle with Galway in Croke Park. That’s just slightly above the 1,037,000 who watched Clare win the All-Ireland hurling final on the Sunday Game last weekend.
The football final drew in an average TV audience of 889,000 which represented a share of 76% of those watching TV at the time. There 356,416 streams of Armagh’s triumph on RTÉ Player.
Over 1million people watched @RTEsport as Aidan Forker lifted Sam for @Armagh_GAA . Peak audience 1,085k, average 889k, 76%. 356k streams on @RTEplayer , more still on @RTERadio1 & Sunday Game Beo. An amazing day for Armagh & great live sport. pic.twitter.com/E6itXjePpU
— Declan McBennettRTE (@RTEmcbennettd) July 29, 2024
The Sunday Game highlights and review of the Football year with Jacqui Hurley and guests on RTÉ One was watched by 191,000, with a share of 21%. An average audience of 294,000 tuned in for RTÉ’s Up For the Match programme.
“As live sport dominates our screens the draw of the All Ireland finals remain constant,” said RTÉ’s Head of Sport, Declan McBennett. “A wonderful day for Armagh Gaels and an enthralling final which made life long memories for those from the Orchard county.”
Wonder how many stayed awake for the whole match tho?
@Ron Burgundy:
This simple solution is a shot clock like in basketball. As soon as team has possession of a live ball they has 1 min ( or time we pick) to make the ball dead (score, wide, fouled, line ball,… or concede a free kick…
I understand that it wasn’t the best final but there’s some amount of begrudgers on this app at times. Seeing what it has meant to Armagh has been brilliant. You don’t have to watch if you hate the sport.
@Daire O’Reilly: more of them seem to fall into the “why isn’t this hurling” camp.
@Daire O’Reilly: it’s not begrudgery to complain about a game ruined by negative tactics. There was no need for the blanket defence and that is why there is a committee working on the rules. Don’t worry, there are plenty of negative soccer games you can watch
Genuinely the most exciting thing that happend in the first half was the waiting to see what would happen in relation to the injured seagull!
My 14 year old daughter who has zero interest in any sport actually watched the first 20 minutes just to see what would happen.
Other than that the first half especially was painful and the quality of play in the 2nd was shocking.
There’s going to have to be a serious rethink on the rules if the game to going to thrive in anything other than a tribal arena like yesterday.
@Stanley Marsh: Thought it was a very enjoyable game, tense and evenly balanced even if it wasn’t the very highest level we’ve ever seen. If you want a lot of scoring and no defending maybe you’d prefer basketball. If that doesn’t work maybe ask someone to jangle their keys in your face and see if that holds your attention.
@Sambo: If it’s alright with you the next time I want to watch “a very enjoyable game, tense and evenly balanced” with lots of scoring and good defending thrown in….I’ll just watch hurling.
@Stanley Marsh: yea stick to hurling
Really reflects just how popular GAA is in Ireland. For comparison the URC final was watched by 1.1 million viewers, Bulls’ semi-final match against Leinster attracted 947,589 viewers. Which are great figures for rugby and shows the URC is a growing success, but given the populations involved and for those to be great figures, very similar viewership for the GAA finals are unbelievable in comparison, given the populations. Suppose also need to add on the BBC NI figures as well, which makes it even better.
@Kingshu: 1.3 million watched England/Spain in the Euros final.
@Donie Nagle: figures for URC are total viewers worldwide, which is why just in Ireland the GAA finals are so impressive. England v Spain had 44m viewers in GB and Spain, before even adding the rest of world viewing figures to it.
@Kingshu: OK you said how popular GAA was in Ireland. And im saying that way more people watched the Euros final than either GAA final. So how popular must soccer be…and thats without Ireland even in it.
@Donie Nagle: The time of day game is on may has something to do with numbers, many more viewers in the evening. 76% of the TV audience for the GAA finals V 55% for the Spain V England game.
Very poor final, constant errors from that Galway team. Hurling final wasba much better spectacle.
Rte player has it ever worked all i saw on it was ads ads work fine do lol
Back and over the pitch then Back again. Brain dead football
Next year will be less if the same schite football is played
Kevin Walsh was sacked for no forward football
.now Joyce even worse.god help.us
HURLING FINAL…1,037,000
FOOTBALL FINAL…1,085,000
EUROS FINAL…1.3 million
Imagine if Ireland were in the Euros.
The rte coverage of Olympics is terrible all talking white no action eurosport or BBC for me.
According to the RTE website, over 1.3 million tuned in to watch Spain v England in the Euro Final
https://about.rte.ie/2024/07/15/1-3-million-tune-into-rte-to-see-england-defeated-by-spain-in-uefa-euro-2024-final/#:~:text=FINAL%20%E2%80%93%20About%20RT%C3%89-,1.3%20MILLION%20TUNE%20INTO%20RT%C3%89%20TO%20SEE%20ENGLAND%20DEFEATED,IN%20UEFA%20EURO%202024%20FINAL&text=Yesterday’s%20UEFA%20EURO%202024%20final,the%20match%20on%20RT%C3%89%20Player.
@Niall Gilmartin: Why are you repeating the same thing you posed last week?
@Niall Gilmartin: Apologies it may not have been you who posted it.
Ah the figures you have for the hurling are wrong that was the average the peak was 1.2m