Traitors Ireland: RTÉ show sees 600,000 tune in on Sunday night

'The Traitors Ireland' host Siobhán McSweeney

‘The Traitors Ireland’ has Irish viewers hooked after a whopping 600,000 viewers watched its opening night episode.

Figures supplied to the Irish Independent reveal the first episode of the reality show was watched by nearly half the available audience on Sunday night. This makes it one of the highest-ever ratings for a show’s debut on RTÉ.

This equated to over 600,000 viewers on RTÉ One and RTÉ One+1 while on the RTÉ Player, the first episode had 139,000 streams.

As expected, the figures dropped slightly for the second episode on Monday night. This saw an average of 510,000 tune in to see the show fronted by ‘Derry Girls’ star Siobhán McSweeney. This made up 43pc of the avail

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