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The Daily PollTHE REALITY SHOW Love Island has come to an end for 2018.
Dani Dyer and Jack Fincham won taking home £50,000 (€56,100).
ITV2 scooped its best ever ratings for the show with 3.4 million people tuning in for the launch last month.
So today we’re asking, did you watch Love Island?
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Thankfully I’ve never seen a second of it
@G Fitz: but I know 2 scuts that love it
@G Fitz: if you’ve never seen it, you never know, you might actually like it you dry shyte
@Mossy Quito: hahahaha
@Mossy Quito: I actually try to live life, not watch other people living life. I also don’t insult people for no reason
@G Fitz: Thankfully I insulted you for a reason ;)
@Mossy Quito: Shite with a ‘Y’. Interesting
@Mossy Quito: Had far more fun pulling off my finger nails, the tv ad’s were more then enough to put me off ever wasting my eyesight on such rubbish
@G Fitz: why bother clicking into an article to comment on it then?
@Dani: it is a poll, asking who watched it and who didn’t. You do know what a poll is?
@G Fitz: i have a life of my own, why watch this rubbish?
@Gus Sheridan: Gus, that’s what I’m saying
I would rather guide my father into my mother.
@Greg Ward: Sweet Jesus…
@Greg Ward: OMG – Greg …. I have no words to that.
@Greg Ward: There’s me coffee over the keyboard!!!! That’s one of the best i’ve ever heard!!!!!!! lolololol!
@Greg Ward: funniest thing I’ve ever seen on the comments section in years. Bravo.
@Greg Ward: I shouldn’t be laughing but the tears are running down my face. Too funny lol
@Greg Ward: Comment of the year!!
@Greg Ward: Have you discussed this with a counsellor?
@Greg Ward: The horror… The horror… LOL
@Greg Ward: copycat
@Greg Ward: never gets old
@Greg Ward: brillant
@Greg Ward: Stealing comments from Facebook . Now that is low
@Greg Ward: Your on the wrong discussion mate!! FM
@Greg Ward: jaysus
@Greg Ward: in a way, your father guided you in to your mother, stew on that for a bit
@Greg Ward: i hope they dont read what you just wrote, you’ll be sent to your room immediately
@Greg Ward: How original
@Greg Ward: I don’t think this gibberish was around, when you first planted the evil thought because of overcrowding with your mates. On a side note, the Journal says: This may be perceived as toxic 5.2/10 !!
Dreadful TV but the public get what the public want. Mankind is doomed.
@TellingItAsItIs: to be fair, Coronation street has been popular for years and that’s far worse than this
@TellingItAsItIs: Snobbery of any kind will be mankind’s undoing.
@TellingItAsItIs: indeed pure brainwashing tripe…no wonder society is so dumbed down, god help the next generation.
@Kian: Worse? They’re both dreadful in their own dreadful way. The public don’t want intelligent tv, they want trash. The general public are an incredibly gullible bunch.
@Alan McDonald: People with chips on their shoulders is a more worrying situation but fails in comparison to the gullibility of the general public.
Have to laugh at the people who claim to be too intellectual to watch a tv show like love island will gladly sit down and watch the RTE news and read the Denis o brien rags or the Irish times and suck it all in, or listen to the spin and drivel sprouted out by the government…but yeah it’s love island that’s causing our demise!
@goon4life: I guess those people like to keep in touch with the real world and things that make a real difference in peoples lives and not the ‘Love Island’ world.
@TellingItAsItIs: the real world according to Denis o brien and Fine Gael…mankind is doomed
@goon4life: Dear god. What age are you?
@TellingItAsItIs: I’m not sure what relevance my age has? My point is I’m not too concerned by what some people watch for light entertainment, no doubt love island is mindless drivel, but maybe some people find it a distraction from the real world, if so, let them at it..I find it more concerning that a large portion of the population who watch the RTE news and take it as gospel, when in reality it is heavily bias in favour for of the established parties, FG/FF/Lab, mainly because they are heavily interconnected..this might sound like tinfoil hat stuff but sadly it’s the Ireland we live in today, society is falling apart but we’re being told how good we have it and a lot of people are buying it
@Kian: No it isnt
@goon4life: Peppa Pig is more intellectual
I’ll never understand why some people get genuinely angry about what others watch on TV
@Kian: Me neither but they all seem to be really really bothered by the fact they didn’t watch ANY OF THAT TRASH THANK YOU VERY MUCH JOURNAL HOW DARE YOU ASK SUCH A QUESTION.
@Kian: It gets relatively few viewers and it takes up and extraordinarily amount of newspaper pages and tv coverage.
@: it dominates youth demographics like no other and is one of, if not the most watched cable show ever in the U.K.
@Kian: Tv 3 are good at only creating trash Tv Tallaghtfornia another piece of trash made by the same chanell There’s very little that is worth watching on this channel
Why is this kind of tv popular ?
I can never understand.
@Louise Ní Riain: a polite way to show some T&A. The same as a beauty contest only without the pretentious of pretending to be classy.
@Louise Ní Riain: It’s surprising and on the edge so creates a lot of spicy talking points for twitter or in the office the next day. It’s not very interesting to watch but can be fun to talk about.
@prop joe: about 5 couples found love so every cloud.
Never did & never will.
Thank god
Life’s too short.
I’ll stick to alcohol if I want some brain rot, thanks.
Never watch trash tv shows
As equally offensive, Horrid, Vulgar, Mundane and pointless as Big Brother , the poll so far says it all
I really dont know what IQ you want to even under stand it let alone watch it i sooner foot turf
Muck, the vanity train is alive & well
God no, I have a life.
Pulling my fingernails out using pliers would be a nicer use of my time
Just another reason not to watch TV. Sick of so called reality-tv.
I don’t have a problem with people watching these things but they create so many z list celebs. Granted yer one that won this has a famous Dad so is probably already in the limelight a bit. Probably why she won it.
Do these women really think men find those swollen lips and breasts attractive?
Degenerate TV for Voyeurs and Cucks.
@Caracalla: sex sells
God they won’t take notice of the No vote in yer poll.am glad to be able to say that I’ve never sat down to waste my time on such rubbish tv
I would rather watch paint drying on the outside of a house on a wet day .
Anyone who watches this utter garbage needs their head examined post haste!
According to TV3′s and ITV2′s viewing figures many people are lying or are afraid/ashamed to respond knowing that watching Love Island is vacuous crap. I do get annoyed at other people watching this in so many numbers because it keeps funds & advertising revenue from original creative TV making rather than churning out fake, manipulated hours of BS TV.
@Smidgen Dublin: As far as I know this poll is anonymous so why would people lie?
God no. Fake people, crap scenarios, shoddy television. If you enjoyed it, fair enough.
@Finn Faulkner: why is there now a “holy f u ck no!” Option?
@Me_a_monkey: not*
@Me_a_monkey: I knew there was something missing there. I’d click that.
No. Too busy living my own life, so watch such junk.
Watchin the austrailian version at the min its middlin so far
Watched every episode this year and damn it going to watch every episode next year. Great trash TV
Is TV really still a thing ?
I would rather watch the Nathan Carter show than watch that. And I really do not like that country music show.
Do these women really think men find those swollen lips and breasts attractive?
I’d rather be interviewed by Sacha Baron Cohen.
It would be interesting to see the breakdown between Female / Male viewers
I am guessing much higher female numbers .
Its a weird world .
Mindless trash TV…..unlike spending hours on the journal comments section which is quality time spent!!
reality tv is so bad. just stick to soaps
I didn’t even know it existed. I just looked it up and it sounds like a load of crap. Fourth series?! Best ever ratings?! I’m glad I don’t own a television; a complete waste of electricity.
Race to the bottom.
Yep while eating my vienna cookies
I heard the USA found reality TV made them great again. Maybe our next President could come from such a show?
Mind numbing stuff. Akin to a bang on the head with a lump hammer
Was it like Big Brother?
What would anyone want to watch this bollixology for??
I actually value my time and not this fake pretence of a reality show that is actually more scripted than Fair City….though maybe that wouldn’t be hard
I would rather pull my eyelashes out with a pliers…
I only glance at TV when I visit the pub, and luckily Love Island wasn’t screening when I went in recent months. If people want real sociological insight into modern day love, they should read Mills & Boon romances. Either that or read aloud Shakespeare’s sonnets.
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/shall-i-compare-thee-summers-day-sonnet-18
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