New figures from the Central Statistics Office show the impact that Covid-19 pandemic restrictions had on people's use of the internet in March, with more people reading news online and uploading self-created content.
The CSO said that 76% of internet users read or downloaded online news (including online news sites, newspapers or magazines) in March, up two percentage points on the corresponding figure for January.
Social networking, including use of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, also increased in March - rising to 68% from 66% in January.
Meanwhile, uploading self-created content (such as photos, music, videos, text to any website to be shared) saw an increase of seven percentage points to 38% of internet users, compared to 31% in