For the 2009 Hurling Championship All-Ireland final, there was a 68% TV audience share in Ireland. An average audience of 771,000 people watched the match and the audience peaked at 912,000, in the dying minutes of the match. That is just the figures from within Ireland. All around the world Irish people and others, would be watching the final on TV. So the real numbers would run into millions of people. On top of that you would have radio listeners in Ireland and worldwide and people getting it through the internet. So that would make those watching or listening to it huge.
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