WATCH: Teenagers caught getting a picture of themselves shifting in the background of RTÉ News report

Their audience turned out to be a lot greater than they had originally intended.

News reports on RTÉ have developed something of a habit of going viral in recent years. All these years on, the poor unfortunate man who slipped on the ice is still an Internet sensation and if there is a weather report that gained more traction around the globe than Teresa Mannion’s famous end-of-the-world broadcast from Galway then we have yet to see it. 2017 may have found its viral RTÉ News moment on Thursday night, when a couple of amorous youngsters in Portlaoise were captured in the background of Ciaran Mullooly’s news report on the Six One news. https://twitter.com/AideenFinnegan/status/880492994574655488 Video via Twitter/Aideen Finnegan via Storyful https://twitter.com/ciaranmullooly/status/880535554038824960 Public exposure of their affection might not bother this particular couple all that much, however, because after they had locked lips, the footage showed that they had asked a friend to capture the moment on camera. We’re not sure their intended audience was meant to include the entire country, but hey, if this is just the blossoming of a long-term romance, it could be a nice story to tell the grandkids. The moment can be seen at the 21:10 mark in the original report on the RTÉ Player here.