IT WAS THE year of the World Cup, G***h B****s, Kim Kardashian, and Frozen.

Google has released its list of the things that Irish people searched for in 2014 and some of it is exactly what you’d expect.

The top news stories were World Cup 2014, the Garth Brooks fiasco, and the celebrity photo hack. Equally unsurprisingly, Kim Kardashian was the top trending person in Ireland, while Robin Williams was the top trending actor and Jennifer Lawrence was the top trending actress.

Some of it is slightly less predictable, however.

It was a year of big television shows - House of Cards, Game of Thrones - but none of these could surpass the might of Peppa Pig, which topped the list of the top trending television shows. 

Meanwhile, one of the most popular searches on Google is ‘How to’. The Irish results show that people frequently search for how to draw, how to knit, and how to meditate. The second most popular answer, however? How to shift. 

And just for the record, here’s what you get when you search for that:

The statistics from Google don’t give the volume of searches, or rank the most popular searches of all (so, for example, porn doesn’t show up on any of the lists). But they do give a good summary of the things that people in Ireland were talking about this year.

Here’s more of the results.

Top News Stories: 

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1. World Cup 2014
2. Garth Brooks
3. Celebrity photo hack
4. Michael Schumacher
5. Robin Williams
6. Ebola
7. Oscar Pistorius
8. Greyhound Recycling dispute
9. Malaysia Airlines
10. Madeleine McCann

Top trending people: 

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1. Kim Kardashian
2. Kate Middleton
3. Garth Brooks
4. Peaches Geldof
5. Jennifer Lawrence
6. Robin Williams
7. Justin Bieber
8. Ariana Grande
9. Oscar Pistorius
10. Miley Cyrus

Top trending movies: 

1. Frozen
2. Divergent
3. American Hustle
4. Dallas Buyers Club
5. Interstellar
6. Harry Potter
7. 22 Jump Street
8. The Lego Movie
9. Lone Survivor
10. Transformers 4

Music artists

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1. Garth Brooks
2. One Direction
3. Justin Bieber
4. Ariana Grande
5. Miley Cyrus
6. Niall Horan
7. Cheryl Cole
8. Ed Sheeran
9. Beyonce
10. Hozier

Sports personalities: 

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1. Michael Schumacher
2. Conor McGregor
3. Oscar Pistorius
4. Rory McIlroy
5. Lionel Messi
6. Cristiano Ronaldo
7. Luis Suarez
8. Neymar
9. David Moyes
10. Roy Keane

Recipes: 

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1. Pancake
2. Cupcake
3. Chicken curry
4. Chocolate cake
5. Scones
6. Cheesecake
7. Rocky road
8. Sponge cake
9. Lasagne
10. Hummus

How to…?

1. How to draw
2. How to shift
3. How to kiss
4. How to contour
5. How to crochet
6. How to knit
7. How to screenshot
8. How to meditate
9. How to hack
10. How to squat

Read: Here’s what the world searched for in 2013 > 

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