{"id":571106,"date":"2026-07-27T22:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/571106\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T22:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:25:26","slug":"more-than-1m-watch-mayo-win-all-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/571106\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 1m watch Mayo win All-Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 1m viewers watched as <a href=\"https:\/\/businessplus.ie\/business-insights\/kobe-mcdonald-aussie-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"247635\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Mayo<\/a> ended their 75-year wait for the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rte.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">RT\u00c9<\/a> has announced that 1.1m were watching on television at 5:11pm yesterday as the hooter sounded, confirming that the Sam Maguire Cup would return to Mayo for the first time since 1951.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An average audience of 944,000 or 82% of the available television audience watched Mayo beat defending champions Kerry by a score of 1-20 to 1-17. There have also been a further 566,000 streams to date on RT\u00c9\u00a0Player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Mayo victory &#8211; and the response to it &#8211; shows just how much our national games mean to us as a nation,&#8221; said Declan McBennett, head of sport at RT\u00c9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;On television, on RT\u00c9 Player, on radio, online and on social, RT\u00c9&#8217;s coverage was exceptional across the board and a compelling example of the enduring role of public service media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The hurling fed our passion this year, and football rediscovered its soul. RT\u00c9 captured every moment and served the nation brilliantly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The average audience was smaller than the 1.37m that watched Ireland&#8217;s FIFA World Cup play-off defeat to Czechia in March, which rose to 1.6m during the penalty shootout and was supplemented by 1.06m streams on RT\u00c9 Player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Sunday&#8217;s World Cup final attracted an average audience of 1m on RT\u00c92 and 1.4m streams on RT\u00c9 Player, while the England-Argentina semi-final brought in 949,000 on RT\u00c92 and 1m on RT\u00c9 Player. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the viewership for the All-Ireland football final exceeded the 898,000 average audience for Ireland&#8217;s win over England in this year&#8217;s Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Kobe-3.jpg\" alt=\"Mayo\" class=\"wp-image-247638\"  \/>More than 1m watched as Mayo won the All-Ireland for the first time in 75 years. Pic: INPHO\/James Crombie<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A further 314,000 watched The Sunday Game on television, representing 37% of the available audience, with 71,500 streaming the post-match analysis programme on the RT\u00c9 Player. The audience for Up for the Match was 324,000 on television (38%) and 57,000 on streaming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RT\u00c9&#8217;s social media coverage of the championship has seen a total of 6.7m engagements, 86.4m video views and 125m content impressions this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo: (l-r) Jordan Flynn and Kobe McDonald. 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