RTÉ: The Year
in Numbers

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RTÉ.ie maintained its position as the number 1 news and entertainment website in Ireland, with 31 million monthly visits and an average visit time of 8 minutes 25 seconds.

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RTÉ expanded its rights for comprehensive GAA Championship coverage across RTÉ television, radio, and online services for the next five seasons, guaranteeing quality free-to-air coverage to audiences in Ireland across 12 months of the year from 2023 to 2027 inclusive.

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RTÉ and Virgin Media Television announced a historic partnership to bring Six Nations Rugby action (Ireland Men’s, Women’s and U-20s tournaments), free-to-air for Irish sports fans.

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We celebrated 50 years of RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta in April with a gala concert with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and guests in Connemara which was broadcast live on RnaG and in a television highlights programme on RTÉ One.

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Ireland’s most popular soap, Fair City reached the milestone of 5,000 episodes in May.

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Over 1.1 million children and their families will benefit from some €6.8 million in donations raised from the 2021 RTÉ Toy Show Appeal. Through our joint efforts with other media organisations to support the Ireland for Ukraine fund, over €7 million was raised. The Late Late Show Irish Red Cross fundraising appeal for Ukraine in March raised just over €3 million to help those directly impacted by the war in Ukraine.

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Irish football fans tuned into the World Cup in Qatar on RTÉ Player in their droves as 8.5 million total streams on 1.8 million unique devices were recorded across the tournament - an increase of 240% on Euro 2020 live streams and a 47% increase on the World Cup 2018.

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From the start of the World Cup on 20th November, RTÉ Player had more than 17.5 million streams as viewers engaged with a wide variety of content, including Quinn Country, The Late Late Toy Show and The Irish Civil War.

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Monthly visits to the RTÉ News App numbered 21 million, with an average of 29 visits per month per user.

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RTÉ Player enjoyed a total of 83.3 million streams in 2022, an increase of 14% on 2021 representing 25 million hours of streaming, a 33% increase on 2021.