Sampras the rabbit joins RTÉ Player's Irish comedy mix
Pat and Faye Shortt play a fictional crime family, while Emma Doran and Bernard O'Shea visit The 2 Johnnies.
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Sampras the rabbit 🐰 | Father Ted
Father Ted supplied RTÉ Player's most watched new upload in a busy week, with a rabbit named Sampras drawing about 37,000 views. The sitcom clip is also the channel's most active upload right now, comfortably beyond the other highlighted videos in daily viewing.
There's a neat connection elsewhere in the week's comedy: Pat Shortt, who played the wonderfully repetitive Tom in Father Ted, appears alongside Faye Shortt in "Pat Shortt and Faye Shortt: Grandfellas| No Worries If Not!" Here, the real-life father-daughter duo play the Murphy crime family, training for a string of robberies in a staged sketch. It was the second most watched of the week's new uploads.
No Worries If Not! also offered a very different pub predicament in "Don't Drop the Pint Glass | No Worries If Not!", built around the cheers that follow a smashed glass. Meanwhile, The 2 Johnnies welcomed Bernard O'Shea for "Desperate House Husband" and Emma Doran for a conversation titled "Meeting your daughter's boyfriend." Doran also belongs to the sketch show's third-season ensemble, giving the week's uploads another familiar face in common.
Across its 15 uploads and wider catalog, RTÉ Player drew roughly 143,000 views over seven days. Subscribers held steady, while daily viewing is currently less than half its usual pace. Among similarly sized television channels, BBC Playback had a busier viewing week and Channel 9 a quieter one. Within RTÉ Player's own lineup, the newer "Who dju think you are | No Worries If Not" is another active draw, alongside O'Shea's pub-chat appearance.
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The videos drawing views on RTÉ Player right now
Pat Shortt and Faye Shortt: Grandfellas| No Worries If Not!9,763 views · 2026-10-08
Bernard O'Shea: Desperate House Husband | The 2 Johnnies Late Night L…8,119 views · 2026-10-10
Emma Doran: Meeting your daughter's boyfriend | The 2 Johnnies Late N…7,732 views · 2026-10-10
Don't Drop the Pint Glass | No Worries If Not!5,623 views · 2026-10-08
When Alicia said this 😳 | The Good Wife5,051 views · 2026-10-08
Who dju think you are | No Worries If Not2,450 views
- Channel
- RTÉ Player
- Subscribers
- 107,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 143,200
- Videos published this week
- 15
- Video published
- October 11, 2026
- Video views so far
- 36,636
- Views on its first day
- 4,131
The numbers
Here is RTÉ Player's week in views, subscribers and uploads.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which sport is associated with Pete Sampras, whose surname the rabbit shares?
Pete Sampras is an American tennis champion who won 14 Grand Slam singles titles.