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Dubai chocolate, Catherine Connolly and Poolbeg Lighthouse during a storm - all things Irish people took to Google to learn more about this year. Alamy
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Quiz: How well do you know the top Google searches of the year?

What were we all trying to find out more about this year? Google has its answers.
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EARLIER THIS WEEK, Google revealed the things people spent the most time searching throughout 2025.

Many of the searches were led by the news cycle, elections across the world, and online trends.

Google has caveated that its top searches are closer to trending searches – it says that many of the true top searches stay the same every year (think “weather forecast” or “news”), so it measures instead where there has been a spike in public interest to determine what was truly most talked and searched for this year.

See how in touch with the curiosity of the public, at home and abroad, you are.

You might've guessed that Catherine Connolly was the most Googled person in Ireland this year - but who listed below was NOT in the top five?
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Maria Steen
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DJ Carey

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Belle Gibson
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Gareth Sheridan
True or False: Traitors Ireland was the most googled TV show in Ireland this year.
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False
Globally, Rory McIlroy was the second most searched athlete. Who was first?
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Portugese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo
US boxer Terence Crawford

NFL player Stefon Diggs
NFL player Jalen Hurts
Andy Byron was among the top ten figures searched in Ireland and Canada, and among the top ten news searches in Australia. He came to unfortunate fame when he was spotted kissing someone at which band's concert?
Green Day
Coldplay

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U2
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Oasis
Ireland's fifth most searched 'How to' term was 'How to register to vote'. What was its most searched 'How to' term?
How to spoil your vote
How to talk to women

How to pronounce Éowyn
How to bottle feed a breast fed baby
In the United States, two public figures were amongst the ten most searched items overall. Who were the two?
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Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk and Zohran Mamdani

Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani
Elon Musk and Donald Trump
What was Ireland's most googled film?
28 Days Later
Superman

Bridget Jones
Nosferatu
What was the most googled book globally?
Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Among the top ten searched recipes this year were four drinks. Which of these was NOT one of them?
Pornstar martini recipe
Pimm's recipe

Lemonade recipe
Hugo Spritz recipe
Which of these 'Why' questions were NOT amongst Canada's top ten searched?
Why does Trump want Canada?
Why is Elphaba green?

Why do kids say 67?
Why does Trump want Greenland?
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