TV audience blooms to more than a million for second Rose night

ROLL over World Cup. Find some more viewers, Lost finale. And get back in line Tiger Woods scandal. Irish television has a new, if admittedly cheesy, king in town.

Figures revealed by RTÉ show the second night of the 2010 Rose of Tralee festival — the programme everyone claims not to watch — was the most viewed broadcast available on any channel so far this year.

Despite viewership figures for Dáithí Ó Sé’s Monday night debut dipping by 43,000 compared with the opening show last year, more than a million people tuned in to the second broadcast on Tuesday.