New research has found that as many as one in five adults in Ireland downloaded TV shows or movies illegally over the last year.

The study found that 36,806 adults here illegally download such content every day.

The study was done by Ignite Research for Core Media, and shows younger adults are most likely to download content - with one in three respondents aged between 15 and 24 having done so in the past year.

That figure declines slightly to one in four in the 25-34 age bracket, while just one in 20 of those aged 55 or older more admit to downloading illegal content.