The most watched programmes in Ireland every year often provoke a certain element of tribal squabbling. Sport broadcasts are always at the top of the charts and, once the Late Late Toy Show is removed from the list, it is left to supporters of different sports to point to the figures as evidence of whatever it is they’ve been saying all along. If rugby somehow outranks GAA, well then we are becoming a rugby country. If hurling somehow makes it to the top then we are a country in touch with the mythical element of Irish life and people purr…

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