RTÉ2’s audience for the Republic of Ireland’s agonising 2-1 loss to hosts France at Euro 2016 on Sunday peaked at 1.34 million viewers as the last-16 encounter drew to a close.
An average of 1.26m tuned in to RTÉ2’s coverage from Lyon, and a massive 83% of those watching television at the time were glued to the action.
There were 130,300 live streams hosted on RTÉ Player.
Live text commentary of the match on the RTÉ.ie Euro 2016 hub resulted in 232,500 page impressions.
RTÉ2’s entire Euro 2016 coverage over the weekend reached a cumulative total of 2.11m people.
Euro 2016 coverage continues on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player this evening with live, exclusive coverage of England’s last-16 clash with tournament surprise-packet Iceland.
The programme begins at 7.30pm and Darragh Maloney will be joined by Damien Duff, Dietmar Hamann and Eamon Dunphy, with commentary from George Hamilton and Jim Beglin.
Reflecting on an action-packed few days for sports fans, RTÉ Group Head of Sport Ryle Nugent said: “On a huge weekend for Irish sport it has been a privilege for RTÉ Sport to bring four live UEFA Euro 2016 games, two highlights shows, two live GAA championship games, The Sunday Game highlights, the Irish Derby and the National Athletics Championships to RTÉ television viewers, plus radio coverage of most of the above, along with both Ireland v South Africa and the Under-20 World Cup final between Ireland and England.
“As the national broadcaster, we are also proud that the highest audience of the year tuned into RTÉ2's coverage as the nation united behind the boys in green.”
