Garvaghy Road blockade report runs thirteen times RTÉ's usual start
The Portadown clip has also drawn a comment section almost as busy as its likes, which is a lot of conversation for a straight news report.
RTÉ NewsStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 287,460 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (22,415).
Garvaghy Road protesters form blockade preventing Orange Order parade | RTÉ News
"Garvaghy Road protesters form blockade preventing Orange Order parade | RTÉ News" went up on Sunday, and within a day it had passed a hundred thousand views.
A new upload on Ireland's public broadcaster usually opens far more quietly than that. This report is moving at roughly thirteen times the pace of a typical RTÉ News first day, and on its own it is pulling a good share of what the entire channel draws in a day. People are also talking beneath it: comments are arriving at more than half the rate of likes.
The name in the title carries weight. Garvaghy Road, in Portadown, was at the center of the Drumcree parade dispute, one of Northern Ireland's most closely watched standoffs of the 1990s.
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- Channel
- RTÉ News
- Subscribers
- 251,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 425,145
- Video published
- September 27, 2026
- Video views so far
- 103,515 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 287,460
The numbers
The figures below show how far this one report has pulled ahead of an ordinary first day on RTÉ News.
