Internet usage doubles to nearly 1 million users

THE number of Irish adults accessing the internet has almost doubled to one million, according to a survey.

The most popular sites are Yahoo, which has 535,000 regular readers and Eircom.net which has 422,000.

RTÉ’s’ website and the Irish Times’s Ireland.com have similar levels of hits with 116,000 and 115,000 readers apiece.