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THE REALITY TV show Love Island is making an impression on Irish viewers – particularly among young women.
If you haven’t watched an episode, it’s difficult to explain – here’s Wikipedia’s attempt, which is the best of the lot:
“Love Island involves a group of contestants, referred to as Islanders, living in isolation from the outside world in a villa in Mallorca, constantly under video surveillance.
“To survive in the villa the Islanders must be coupled up with another Islander, whether it be for love, friendship or money, as the overall winning couple receives £50,000.”
At the end of the show, the public’s preferred person of the winning couple must choose whether to share their winnings with their partner, or keep the money for themselves.
“On the first day, the Islanders couple up for the first time based on first impressions, but over the duration of the series they are forced to ‘re-couple’ where they can choose to remain in their current couple or swap and change.”
The show puts couples through a series of challenges to test their mettle, and in a select few episodes it asks the public to vote for their favourite couple.
There’s a one-hour episode every evening at 9pm apart from Saturdays. This is the fourth season, which will run for at least eight weeks; last year’s season was extended by a week due to the popularity of the show.
This week, TV3 released figures on the number of viewers the show has accumulated after five weeks in, which makes for interesting reading.
Love Island is delivering on average 136,000 viewers per episode and commanding a share of 11%. An average of 22% of the 15-44 cohort are watching this season, with an average of 31% of women aged 15-34 watching and 26% of women aged 25-44.
This week the viewing figures broke records for the show.
Monday and Tuesday’s episodes delivered over 200,000 viewers on average and achieved record shares for the show.
Tuesday’s episode was delayed by an hour due to the World Cup quarter final between England and Colombia going into extra time and then penalties.
On Wednesday night, over 45% of all women 15-34 who were watching TV watched Love Island - a significant statistic considering the competition between many different TV stations.
There’s also been over 4.6 million streams across live 3player and catch-up services.
This data was collected by Nielsen Television Audience Measurement, who have been providing a televisions ratings measurement service in Ireland since 1996.
The figures above are based on surveys done on homes from 1,050 homes, or around 2,500 people.
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Fair play to O’Leary, even through all the hardship going in the economy and the airline industry, he is still driving the company upwards.
Absolutely, they are a great airline, although some may not agree but I have never had any issues with them for as long as I have used them.
Hardship in the economy and the airline industry… Sounds like someone has replaced your newspapers with copies from 2010. It’s golden time for the airline industry, they have never been doing better with some obvious exceptions.
All 5 of the american airlines carriers posted record breaking profits for the quarter…American $860mil (actually $1.5bn), Delta $801mil, United $789mil, Southwest $465mil, and Jetblue $260mil.
Ryanair customers generally have no idea of the workings of the industry, prices or market.
Unless you have been asleep there have been 3 passenger aircraft lost last week alone
What did you think “some obvious exceptions” meant…?
I love Ryanair. There, I said it. T&Cs are all there in black and white. Never have a problem with them.
What i cant work out is now we all have an allocated seat but still people cue up half an hour before the plane is even there, then they have to sit on the said plane for over half an hour more then the person who gets on last, very strange
You obviously never travelled on Irish trains reserved seating means nothing. Try getting some egit whose occupied your reserved seat with you name in neon above it to move. It’s that trust thing sorry. Do you blame them the poor sheep.
I’m sorry, what?
See my Vest
What are you saying. Come on out with it. Eh what was I saying.
They guarantee a place for their bags… Saying that, I’m always last on!
@Mark, lad in work just told me now that only the first 90 odd get to take their bags on and the rest have to go in the baggage hold, again strange as i flew this morning and was last on and kept my bag with me
As a very frequent flyer, I queue up early because I want to get onto the plane as quickly as possible, store my bag, sit down and relax. I don’t want to be in a situation where I have to store my bag in an overhead locker at the other end of the plane because there is no space in my overhead locker.
Also, if my bag has to go down below into the luggage hold (because there isn’t room) I have to wait at baggage collection which adds an extra 15-20 minutes waiting (in airports like Dublin or London Stansted). I’ve been in a situation once where I missed my train in the UK because I had to wait at baggage collection.
Flew with Ryanair this summer and noticed a huge difference in customer care. The staff were friendly and helpful and even when our bag was .7kg over weight no one said anything. Got a great deal on car hire too through their website.
Make Michael o leary our new Minister for finance..
The company has got a lot better over the last 6 months. But prices have gone up so much too.
“The average fare rose by 9%” it’s very noticeable.
I’m flying to Dublin in 2 weeks, the cheapest flight I could get was £94, aerlingus was only £120 from Heathrow. Last year I flew the same time for £42. Thats over 100% more. I booked the flight over 3 months ago. I check the prices all the time. Ryanair prices have gone up so much this year.
I fly very regularly from Stansted to Dublin and I always get a return flight for under £60, assuming i’m booking at least a month in advance.
Business is flying …
It is when your staff work for peanuts
Untrue, another myth and lie. I worked there for many a year. Great payers, great opportunities.
@Scorpionvenomm I assume you have a credible source to back up that claim? If so, please include it in your comments, I’d love to read it.
So why are they still looking for developers for the new offices ?
Because the jobs only launched about a month ago. Still looking for the right people with the right skills, just like google, Facebook, Sky, twitterer and any other big company you care to mention. Nothing to do with pay.
A McDonald’s with wings.
Really,if only they had wings,i have used Ryanair from day one and you just got to hand it to OLeary,on course for well over €600 million euro profit this year,looks like Ryanair shareholders are on cloud nine yet again.
They stopped flying to Sweden even though the seats were always full, I don’t get it, and prices keep rising, I think he’s just as greedy as the politicians.
By the way SAS flew my family to Sweden in great comfort with twice as much luggage for a little more mula
Put that in your pipe Ò Leary
He’s probably looking for cheaper airport charges. They did the same with Manchester. Threatened to pull out of the airport if he didn’t get a better deal. The airport said nothing they could do. Ryanair pulled out but 6 months later they returned with even more routes. It’s an old trick they try to make more profits. Doesn’t work all the time. They will return to Sweden.
They pulled the flights to Salzburg a few years ago. With the exception of a few winter flights they have not returned a regular schedule. I don’t know if the issue was with Salzburg Airport or a passenger numbers. The planes appeared to be fairly full anytime I flew. Hope you’re right and this route will start up again.
So treating your paying customers a bit better is actually giving you better profits? Wow, imagine how much more money you would have made over the last 15 years! Must be a bit of a sickener! All that lost revenue…
Prices are rising. That’s why profits are up. I wouldn’t go near them. Lufthansa in particular through Frankfurt can be very cheap and prices are all inclusive of bags, seats and a cup of tea.
And they don’t boast about customer service. They just do it.
Is your seat not included in the price with Ryanair?
Not a free seat that you can chose.
Not much point in going lufthansa if they not going where you wanna go is it!!!!!!!
Well deserved… Well done Ryanair!
Well done Ryanair, now a huge employer in north county Dublin.
They are amazing. Like the property market which went up and up and up and up for 12 years. What could possibly go wrong?
Not even remotely similar.
When ANY business is exceeding their competitors profits time and time again I think it’s worth a closer look. Ryanair is not Google. They didn’t create a new beast. They fly people from A to B.
However, if you raise any eyebrows about anything ‘successful’ in Ireland you get shot down.
Perhaps if we has raised a few eyebrows about other success stories of the past we may not have ended up as a bankrupt nation.
You tried to compare the selling of property to the selling of a temporary seat on an aircraft, no comparison.
The property bubble lasted how long? versus Ryanair.You know how long this company has been in existence. As long as they give their customers what they want at a price point the market will bare they will survive.
They need to sort out tje priority boarding at Nice airport. It was shambolic last week. I was one of the last on the flight.
I be more worried if I was left behind. I prefer Aer Lingus myself. My 85 year old mother was left behind at a London airport. No apologies nada from Ryan Air. I won’t be forgiving them for that one no matter how good there cus service is now.
Priority boarding is moot now that Ryanair have assigned seating.
@See my vest, they still only allow the 1st 90 people to take hand luggage, as it all won’t fit on board, so good for that reason.
That’s obviously in the small print on conditions of the new improved customer service. The second bag thing.
With all due respect, they don’t really owe your mother an apology. Hundreds of thousands of people pass through London Airports every day (http://www.heathrowairport.com/about-us/company-news-and-information/company-information/facts-and-figures). No airline is going to delay a flight because there’s a passenger who hasn’t boarded yet.
I’m sitting on a Ryanair flight fro Sicily right now , the captain announced our flight was to be delayed 1 freakin hour, because of air traffic control. And they didn’t know this before they boarded the plane ? Arseholery I suspect
Or just bad weather or issues in Italy? Would you prefer he flew and then couldn’t land safely?
No Jason, I would rather they didn’t fully board the plane THEn tell us the flight was delayed. Surely if there was a problem with air traffic control they would have known.
The weather was perfect by the way
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