The World Cup, Ice Bucket Challenges in aid of ALS, Jennifer Lawrence and Garth Brooks were among the most popular searches by Irish people on Google this year.
There was also an appetite for finding out how to do everything from kissing to knitting, research movies, recipes and diets.
One Direction and Justin Bieber were also in our search rankings, along with news stories including the Ebola outbreak, the Oscar Pistorius trial and the death of Robin Williams.
Stephen Rosenthal is from Google:
