Ireland’s Grand Slam win over England at Twickenham on Saturday was the highest rated programme on Irish television so far this year with an average of 951,000 people tuning in.
A further 100,000 people watched the fixture on TV3's online player, while an audience of 1,328,000 tuned in at some point during the match, the broadcaster said.
It all contributed to a 35.4 per cent share of the daily TV viewing in Ireland – a new record for TV3.
The high viewing figures were also despite some pre-game trouble with the signal as Virgin Media customers around Dublin were unable to tune into TV3.
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However, the issue was fixed shortly before the game started.
