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Ireland/Éire. Céad míle fáilte! An all-island subreddit for discussion of Irish news, politics, culture, history and society. Founded 2008 · 1.3M members

1.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 82K upvotes, which works out to 63 per 1,000 members.

63peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.3Mmembers
82Kbest post
2.5Kmost comments
595posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

39% 32% 15%
Link 39% Image 32% Text 15% Video 6% Question 5% Gallery 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

News 22 Careful now 21 Moaning Michael 17 Infrastructure 16 Sports 15 Culchie Club Only 14 Education 14 Arts/Culture 13 Ah, you know yourself 12 Christ On A Bike 12

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

The President’s dog, Síoda, has passed away. RIP Síoda.

↑ 82K 💬 1.2K image 2020

Japanese Ambassador in the UK celebrating St. Patrick's Day

↑ 70.8K 💬 509 image 2025

Let's have a cup of tea and let this all blow over

↑ 61.2K 💬 958 image 2021

Maybe the English aren't so bad after all..

↑ 53.3K 💬 735 image 2026

Italy great bunch of lads.

↑ 50.1K 💬 1.6K image 2021

It’s like a Venn diagram of awful.

↑ 46.1K 💬 719 image 2025

Ireland stands with Ukraine

↑ 36.7K 💬 1.1K image 2022

Ban Americans traveling until they sort their shit out

↑ 34.5K 💬 2K image 2020

The struggle is real: The indignity of trying to follow an American recipe when you’re Irish.

↑ 31.9K 💬 2.5K image 2020

Croatia great bunch of lads.

↑ 28.9K 💬 1.3K image 2018

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/ireland, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/ireland?
r/ireland ("Ireland/Éire") describes itself this way: Céad míle fáilte! An all-island subreddit for discussion of Irish news, politics, culture, history and society. It was founded in 2008 and has 1.3M members.
How many members does r/ireland have?
r/ireland has about 1.3M members. ViralHunt has tracked 595 of its posts; the biggest reached 82K upvotes, which is 63 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ireland?
"The President’s dog, Síoda, has passed away. RIP Síoda." reached 82K upvotes and 1.2K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ireland.
What subreddits are similar to r/ireland?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/illinois, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/TooMeIrlForMeIrl, r/goodnews.
What kind of posts do best on r/ireland?
Of the posts we hold, 39% are link posts and 32% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ireland?
Across 595 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 11:00 UTC (19K avg upvotes), Saturday at 08:00 UTC (17.8K avg upvotes), Monday at 10:00 UTC (14.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/ireland?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ireland has 21.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 154 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/ireland, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.