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OVER 1.5 MILLION people watched the Late Late Toy Show live on Friday night and across the weekend on catch-up services, according to figures released by RTÉ.
The Greatest Showman themed Toy Show had a 74% share of the audience watching television on Friday night, with an average of 1.3 million people watching the show live.
A further 141,700 viewers watched their recording of the show on Saturday and 51,900 viewers did the same on Sunday.
In addition, 113,000 watched the repeat of the show on RTÉ One on Saturday morning.
Viewership on the RTÉ player was up 33% on last year with over 116,000 live streams and over 100,000 people watching on catch up over the weekend.
The show was watched in over 100 countries outside of Ireland with people watching in countries like Myanmar, Burundi, Haiti and Mongolia.
Some of the show highlights came from the story of Scott who donated bone marrow to his cousin Grace and from Kerry GAA fan Michael meeting his hero Davy Fitz.
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Highlight clips from the show have also gained traction online, with videos on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube receiving up to 1.5 million views to date.
Commenting on the Toy Show’s viewership, host Ryan Tubridy said he is always “blown away” every year at the reception the show receives.
“As a team, we are so honoured that people open their arms and welcome us in for such a magical night, and I sincerely hope it was as much fun for our viewers as it was for me on Friday.
“The production team and the children are what make the Toy Show special and memorable and I want to thank everyone involved, from little star Michael to our heroes Grace and Scott, to the set and costume designers. I’m delighted viewers loved it as much as we did.”
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The article says “white supremacist” but the definition of what classifies a white supremacist has slipped over the years. Who knows if he was actually targeting white supremacists or just regular conservatives he labelled as such. It’s also ironic that they both hate Jews. We live in a weird world. If only the radicalised nutters could go at each other without innocent people being involved. Fair play to the FBI.
@Toomasu Sumitsu: the definition hasn’t changed, only people’s perception of what is acceptable as they forget history.
@The Guru: the terms racist, Nazi and white supremacist are often thrown around to describe anybody to the right of Bernie Sanders. They don’t even carry any weight anymore the looney left diluted their meaning so much.
Amazing that they never seem to be able to prevent the attacks of actual white supremacists despite living out their lives in plain site.
@Nicky O’Donnell:
That’s a strange comment
@Nicky O’Donnell:
That’s a strange comment
@Duncan: you can say that again!
@Nicky O’Donnell: Indeed a very strange comment!
26 year old veteran!! Did he join on his fifth birthday
@Garreth Mc Mahon: In the US if you served a tour of active duty and received an honorable discharge you meet the criteria for being a veteran
@Darren Tully: is honorable discharge a nice of saying thanks for letting us use you now piss off
The FBI have a dubious history of picking no-hopers and through ‘informants’ radicalising them further and providing them with money and material they would never have for themselves, then declaring they’d busted a major terrorist plot, when the whole thing was put together by the FBI. This story has echoes of that type of thing.
https://theintercept.com/2015/03/16/howthefbicreatedaterrorist/
@Squiddley Diddley: Buy your tin foil hats in bulk do you?
@Kazoochka: It actually happens.
@Squiddley Diddley: For those naive enough to think this doesn’t happen, a Human Rights Watch report from the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School on the practice (It’s a pdf): http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/usterrorism0714_ForUpload_1_0.pdf
@Kazoochka: he provides sources??
@Squiddley Diddley: ur gonna get sheeple putting you down about your comments like ur man with the tinfoil hat comment. What ur saying has actual weight to it one read that article but I was wearing a tinfoil balaclava so it was in my eyes a bit :D
Somebody should really inform the FBI that now plays for Liverpool, westing the #3 shirt and goes by the name of Fabinho!!
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