Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Sports Audience in Ireland

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Sports in Ireland — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Sports has an estimated audience of 2,025,071 people in Ireland.

Sports has an estimated audience of 2,025,071 people in Ireland. 54.8% are female, 45.2% are male, average age 39.5. Top brand affinities: Oklahoma City Thunder, 2. Bundesliga, Copa do Brasil, Los Angeles Clippers, Utah Jazz.

Top brand affinities include Oklahoma City Thunder, 2. Bundesliga, Copa do Brasil, with strongest over-indexing on Oklahoma City Thunder (1.61× the country average).

Demographically, the Sports audience skews balanced with an average age of 39.5, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Patriotism, Convenience Orientation.

The typical Sports fan in Ireland is balanced, around 39.5 years old, with strong Patriotism tendencies and a notable affinity for Oklahoma City Thunder.

Category: Sports · Type: Topic · Subtype: Lifestyle cluster

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-14.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Sports profile in Ireland.

Audience size
2M
in Ireland
Gender
54.8%
45.2% male
Age
39.5
average years
Country rank
#83
Topic in Ireland
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

+1%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Sports fans

54.8% are female, 45.2% are male, average age 39.5.

Fig. 02

Gender split

54.8%
Female
45.2%
Male
Demographic split for Sports audience in Ireland
MetricValue
Female54.8%
Male45.2%
Average age39.5
Estimated audience size2,025,071
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 39.5
average years
Age distribution of the Sports audience in Ireland
Age bracketShare%
16-1922%
20-2916%
30-3920%
40-4922%
50+21%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

0.2%

of the worldwide Sports audience comes from Ireland.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Sports
CountryShare
United States20.3%
Japan8.3%
India5.0%
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the Sports audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Sports audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01Oklahoma City ThunderSports1.61×
02Atlanta HawksSports1.59×
03Kyrie IrvingSports1.58×
04Chris PaulSports1.58×
05Los Angeles ClippersSports1.57×
06Washington WizardsSports1.57×
07Carmelo AnthonySports1.57×
08Russell WestbrookSports1.56×
09Copa do BrasilSports1.55×
102. BundesligaSports1.54×
11Memphis GrizzliesSports1.54×
12New Orleans PelicansSports1.53×
13A League of Their OwnMovies & TV1.53×
14Sacramento KingsSports1.52×
15Fresh Meat (TV series)Movies & TV1.52×
16Klay ThompsonSports1.52×
17Utah JazzSports1.51×
18Charlotte HornetsSports1.51×
19Detroit PistonsSports1.51×
20Shaquille O'NealSports1.50×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Sports audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Sports audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
PatriotismCONSERVATISM1.03×
Convenience OrientationPREMIUM0.94×
Need for SecurityCONSERVATISM0.91×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Sports audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
TravellingTHRILL0.83×
Design AffinityPREMIUM0.84×
Social Media UsageJOY0.89×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Ireland who actively search for Sports. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Ireland. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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