Mrs Brown is queen of the Christmas TV ratings for the fourth year running after attracting 703,100 viewers for her Christmas Day special on RTÉ One.
Mrs Brown's Boys was the most watched show on Christmas Day and overall TV continued to play a central part in Irish people's festive celebrations with the average person watching four hours and 39 minutes of television on Christmas Day alone.
RTÉ One and RTÉ2 delivered 17 of the top 20 shows on Irish Television on Christmas day while RTÉ Jr was the Number One children’s channel for four to seven year olds for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
The highest rating movie on Christmas Day was Argo with 336,000 viewers on RTÉ One followed by Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, with 304,000 viewers, also on RTÉ One.
The Fair City one-hour special also proved hugely popular with 343,000 tuning into see Claudia Carroll return to Carrigstown and rekindle her romance with Paul.
On RTÉ2 Harry Potter and the Philosophers’ Stone was the most popular film of the day with over 200,000 viewers, while 111,000 viewers watched a new series of Una’s Dream Ticket which sees Una Foden of The Saturdays make children’s dreams come true.
On Christmas Eve, the Six-One news was the most watched programme of the day with 387,000 viewers. Comedy proved particularly popular too with RTÉ2’s Father Ted’s Christmas Special proving to be the 3rd most watched show with 274,000 viewers. Mario Rosenstock's Christmas Special also performed well with 265,000 viewers
RTÉ2 was also the Number 1 Channel for adults aged 15 to 34 on Christmas Eve, The highest-rating programmes of the day across all channels for adults in that age range was the film Happy Feet with average share of 24%.
On Stephen’s Day, the Six-One news and Nine-O’Clock news on RTÉ One both drew in over 389,000 viewers while James Bond movie Skyfall was the most popular movie of the day with 329,000 viewers on RTÉ One.
