Top Newspapers Websites in Ireland

Name: Top websites in Ireland (Newspapers)
Creator: Semrush
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Based on data from the Semrush Traffic Analytics tool, this page reveals the most visited websites. We will be updating this list on a monthly basis, so you can keep track of all the market shifts and spot changes in user interest.

Most Visited Newspapers Websites in Ireland, Updated May 2026

May 2026

Domain

Visits

Desktop share

Mobile share

MoM

YoY

Main Traffic Source

youtube.com

222.17M

30.94%68.74M

69.06%153.43M

↑5.56%

↑3.96%

Direct

rte.ie

21.91M

13.98%3.06M

86.02%18.85M

↓2.24%

↓3.87%

Direct

instagram.com

20.88M

43.48%9.08M

56.52%11.8M

↓5.04%

↑3.59%

Direct

wikipedia.org

17.34M

26.96%4.68M

73.04%12.67M

↓9.97%

↓4.72%

Search

bbc.com

8.46M

19.62%1.66M

80.38%6.8M

↓16.61%

↓6.6%

Direct

theguardian.com

6.67M

12.33%822.02K

87.67%5.84M

↓25.55%

↓3.89%

Direct

independent.ie

6.62M

16.32%1.08M

83.68%5.54M

↓16.51%

↓23.89%

Direct

rip.ie

4.27M

16.66%711.82K

83.34%3.56M

↓1.16%

↓15.03%

Direct

imdb.com

4.07M

31.51%1.28M

68.49%2.79M

↑11.65%

↓9.56%

Search

irishtimes.com

3.93M

25.79%1.01M

74.21%2.92M

↓16.28%

↓22.11%

Direct

nytimes.com

3.86M

17.45%673.77K

82.55%3.19M

↑10.77%

↓10.48%

Direct

bbc.co.uk

3.66M

17.14%626.82K

82.86%3.03M

↓1.73%

↑46.37%

Direct

dailymail.com

3.08M

18.89%582.1K

81.11%2.5M

↑206.12%

↑66.14%

Direct

twitter.com

2.69M

36.31%975.47K

63.69%1.71M

↓20.03%

↓64.45%

Direct

sky.com

2.31M

16.66%385.19K

83.34%1.93M

↓31.02%

↓12.27%

Direct

cnn.com

1.43M

16.87%242.03K

83.13%1.19M

↓20.16%

↑60.73%

Direct

irishmirror.ie

1.37M

17.78%243.73K

82.22%1.13M

↓29.84%

↑1.59%

Search

irishexaminer.com

1.2M

24.36%292.67K

75.64%908.82K

↓21.09%

↓27.85%

Direct

independent.co.uk

1.13M

6.99%79.18K

93.01%1.05M

↓24.91%

↑54.17%

Search

euronews.com

1.11M

2.61%28.99K

97.39%1.08M

↓41.5%

↑29.65%

Direct

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Key Insights on Top Newspapers Websites in Ireland on May 2026

As of May 2026, youtube.com leads Newspapers in Ireland with 222.17M monthly visits. Its audience skews mobile-first (30.94% desktop / 30.94% mobile), and traffic is up month over month 5.56% and up year over year 3.96%. rte.ie holds second with 21.91M visits and a mobile-leaning mix (13.98% desktop / 86.02% mobile), while instagram.com ranks third with 20.88M visits.

Across the leaders, tagesanzeiger.ch is the most mobile-first (100% of visits), whereas globo.com is the most desktop-reliant (65.49%). Momentum favors timesofisrael.com in the latest month (513.5%), while dailymail.co.uk shows the steepest pullback.

Acquisition patterns also differ: youtube.com is driven primarily by search, youtube.com by direct, and youtube.com by referral; overall, 83 of the top 100 sites are direct-led, 10 are search-led, and 7 lean on social.

These insights come from the Traffic & Market Toolkit, enriched with extensive clickstream data.

Our AI algorithms analyze petabytes of information from a blend of proprietary and external data pools, reflecting the online activities of over 200 million anonymized users.

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Top Newspapers Websites in Ireland