Ireland’s most popular YouTuber plays a mean game

Sharon Ní Chonúir talks to Seán McLoughlin, Ireland’s most popular YouTuber, who is believed to earn anything up to €7.3m a year — and all from working in his own bedroom.

IT may be hard to believe but there’s a 24-year-old in Athlone whose viewer numbers are much higher than the highest for an episode of Love/Hate or EastEnders (bar the recent denouement, perhaps).

Seán McLoughlin — otherwise known as Jacksepticeye — has so far made 1,506 videos, which have been watched 1,115,533,201 times by a total of 3,515,691 people who subscribe to his YouTube channel.