. million tune-in to Republic of Ireland s victory over Italy

1.2 million tune-in to Republic of Ireland s victory over Italy

An average* of 1.23m viewers watched last night s Group E crunch clash between the Republic of Ireland and Italy on RT 2 as Robbie Brady's headed effort ensured qualification to the Round of 16 and a glamour tie against hosts France in Lyon on Sunday.

73.6%** of those watching television at the time were tuned into the game. The audience peaked*** at 1.45m viewers in the last minute of the game while the post-match analysis peaked even higher at 1.47m viewers (21.56) as Darragh Maloney asked John Giles, Eamon Dunphy and Liam Brady to reflect on a famous victory.

Additionally there were 101,500 live streams for the Republic of Ireland v Italy game on RT Player, which includes 7,450 streams of the Irish Language commentary version. This makes Ireland v Italy the third biggest live game of UEFA EURO 2016 on RT Player after Ireland v Sweden and England v Wales.

Ryle Nugent, Group Head of Sport, RTE commented The Irish team competing in the Euros is a national event which RT is proud to deliver to Irish audiences. Everyone involved in delivering coverage of the UEFA EURO 2016 championship is hugely encouraged that such large numbers of viewers continue to choose RT as the place to see national teams compete and unite to share the experience and we look forward to bringing viewers live coverage of what's sure to be an exciting game against France.

RT 2's entire UEFA EURO 2016 coverage yesterday reached**** a cumulative total of 1.9m people.

Last night's live game and post-match analysis were the two highest-rating television programmes of the year to date.

The Republic of Ireland's Round of 16 tie with France on Sunday (KO 2.00pm) will be exclusively live on RT 2 television, streamed live on RT Player and will have full live commentary on RT Radio 1.

The day of the Ireland v Italy game delivered the highest peak of daily online traffic so far to RT s online Euro 2016 hub across RT .ie and RT News Now app, with over half a million page impressions (572,280) yesterday. The live tracker article of last night s game had over 255,700 page impressions.

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