New Year revellers send 35 million texts in three hours

NEW YEAR revellers sent and received a whopping 35 million text messages in just three hours on New Year’s Eve.

At a cost of up to €3.5m, the number of messages equates to eight each for every person in the country.

Meteor bosses said 5.6 million texts were sent and received on their network between 10pm on New Year’s Eve and 1am yesterday.