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Ireland soccer players wear armbands, refuse handshakes with Israel

Rank
Running
27h
Updated
25h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
3
Regions
3
Countries
3
Languages
1

+0

The Independent United Kingdom · English 4 Oct, 19:07 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

The only language so far · English, 3 reports

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 3 after 28 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Independent, 4 Oct, 19:07 UTC.
  2. Second region: International, with Al-Monitor.
  3. Second country: Canada, with CTV News.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 4 Oct, 20:30 UTC.
  5. Now: 3 outlets.

Where it travelled

28 of 28 hours

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The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

34%33%33%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 34%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 33%
  • International 1 outlet · 33%

First movers

  1. The Independent 4 Oct, 19:07 UTC
  2. INTLAl-Monitor +1h 23m
  3. CTV News +1h 43m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Israel-Ireland football match draws protests and boycott calls, 2 to 4 Oct 2026, 4 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
3 outlets in 3 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 3 outlets, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Canada. Europe 1: United Kingdom. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English.
Timeline
Earliest article The Independent, 4 Oct 2026, 19:07 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 19:20 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 20:50 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Europe, Ireland. Topic Sport. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.39, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continues Israel-Ireland football match draws protests and boycott calls. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
4 Oct 2026 385 2.39 2 2 2 2 4.1

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Started 4 Oct, 19:20 UTC · Updated 20:50 UTC

Covered by 3 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • CTV News Canada 4 Oct, 20:50 UTC
    Ireland soccer players again wear black armbands and refuse handshakes with Israel team

Europe 1 outlet

  • The Independent United Kingdom 4 Oct, 19:07 UTC
    Ireland soccer players again wear black armbands and refuse handshakes with Israel team

International 1 outlet

  • INTLAl-Monitor International 4 Oct, 20:30 UTC
    Israel wear black armbands in Ireland tie over Hamas attack
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