No, it wasn't Conor McGregor.
Remember when Conor McGregor retired? April seems like a long, long time ago but the Dubliner damn near broke the information superhighway when he tweeted out that he was done with the UFC.
He thanked us '
for the cheese' and said that that was that. Well, that wasn't that, and he's since gone on to claim the lightweight as well as the featherweight belt already in his possession when he called it quits.
Why do we mention this? Because the Notorious still lags behind #
DonaldTrump in the list of Twitter's most trending people in 2016.
We're not massively surprised, given the fact that the media shits itself every time he decides hit send on his latest 140 characters of pure malevolence.
Trump beat McGregor into 2nd place, with
#RIPAxel taking third spot following the devastating loss of Munster coach Anthony Foley in October.
Fourth on the list this year was the late #
Prince, who died in April, followed by
#PatHickey and
#Bowie in fifth and sixth place respectively.
Television trends in 2016
In terms of TV, in Ireland the most trending topic this year was
#LeadersDebate ahead of the General Election way back in February.
That particular song and dance routine came in ahead of its close cousin, the
#Eurovision, in second place while
#CBB was third.
Yep, Celebrity Big Brother.
Ours is not to question why, to each their own, etc etc.
Completing the top five were
#GameOfThrones and
#LateLateShow, ranging from the sublime to the occasionally ridiculous.
International news trends in 2016
Not Trump. Not the General Election. Not
this terrifying footage of a man climbing the Poolbeg chimneys.
Nope, the biggest trending news story of 2016 came from the David Cameron-induced clusterfuck that was
#Brexit, with thousands of people waking up, checking Twitter, tweeting their utter shock and dismay and then going back to bed.
For a week.
#Trump was second, with
#EURef third as people became convinced the whole Brexit thing had to be a massive hoax and no, really, Britain had voted to leave the European Union. Then everyone had to go back to bed.
For another week.
