13 sporting events make top-50 most-watched TV shows of 2020

RTÉ’s coverage of Dublin’s six-in-a-row-clinching success over Mayo on the Saturday before Christmas ranked fifth highest of all TV broadcasts in Ireland this year. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

The All-Ireland Senior Football final was the most-watched Irish sporting event in 2020 with 876,600 viewers.

RTÉ’s coverage of Dublin’s six-in-a-row-clinching success over Mayo on the Saturday before Christmas ranked fifth highest of all TV broadcasts in Ireland this year, behind the annual favourite, The Late Late Toy Show (1.7m), and a trio of news broadcasts as the nation entered higher Covid-19 restrictions.