Is this a bandwagon or a fair reflection of 2015 Ireland?
Research of Sunday’s manic day for Irish sport shows that rugby is topping the bill as far as the weekend goes anyway.
An analysis was conducted to study the impressions that both the Ireland rugby and football teams had on the country on what was billed as ‘Super Sunday’. And it was Joe Schmidt’s men who led the way.
Ireland booked their place in the Rugby World Cup quarter finals against Argentina after beating France (if you didn’t hear) whilst Martin O’Neill’s side were condemned to the play-offs after losing to Poland.
And the social and traditional media stats produced by Kantar Media show that it was the rugby that had taken over as the nation’s biggest talking point.
On social media, rugby absolutely dominated discussion but there was still an even enough spread in the traditional media amongst papers and radio and TV.
The Sunday World was the biggest generators of coverage for football, while The Sunday Independent was the most active publication for rugby coverage. The Ireland v France rugby game garnered €820,298 worth of press coverage, 4% more than the Poland v Ireland football match, which achieved €786,310.
Irish women prefer the rugby.
Martin O’Neill was being heavily scrutinised while concern for Paul O’Connell dominated the player chat.
50-50 split amongst both sets of players but, again, it was the rugby that came out on top.
The nitty gritty. Can we please just use one?
Something we can all agree on.
