{"id":570476,"date":"2026-07-27T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/570476\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:00:11","slug":"over-one-million-viewers-watched-mayo-win-the-all-ireland-on-rte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/570476\/","title":{"rendered":"Over one million viewers watched Mayo win the All-Ireland on RT\u00c9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OVER ONE MILLION viewers tuned in to watch Mayo\u2019s historic win in the All-Ireland Senior Football Final on RT\u00c9 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Viewing numbers show that an average of 944,000 viewers tuned in to watch the match, with a peak of 1.1 million viewers at 5.11pm.<\/p>\n<p>There have been 566,000 streams to date on the RT\u00c9 Player.<\/p>\n<p>Although the numbers don\u2019t supersede the record-breaking viewing numbers for Ireland\u2019s World Cup playoff against Czechia in March (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0327\/1565518-rte2-audience-reached-1-6-million-peak-for-ireland-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">peak numbers hit 1.6 million<\/a> during the penalty shootouts, and views on the player topped one million), the viewership accounted for a greater percentage of the available audience.<\/p>\n<p>RT\u00c9 said 82% of those watching television were watching its coverage of the match, compared to 78% for the World Cup match.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcaster\u2019s head of sport Declan McBennett said the GAA championship differs from the World Cup as it \u201callows RT\u00c9\u2019s radio services to come alive as both companion and an inspiration across those summer months\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Mayo victory \u2013 and the response to it \u2013 shows just how much our national games mean to us as a nation,\u201d McBennett said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hurling fed our passion this year, and football rediscovered its soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RT\u00c9\u2019s social media for the GAA Championship saw a total of 6.7 million engagements with 86.4 million video views and 125 million content impressions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OVER ONE MILLION viewers tuned in to watch Mayo\u2019s historic win in the All-Ireland Senior Football Final on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[217463,4365,764,4183,61,60,4185,43,6085],"class_list":["post-570476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-all-ireland-football-final","tag-gaelic-football","tag-croke-park","tag-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-news","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}