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Ireland football press conference disrupted by Israeli journalist question

Rank
Ran
27h
Updated
26h ago
Final
Outlets
7
Regions
2
Countries
6
Languages
5

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Sky News United Kingdom · English 3 Oct, 14:18 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Português (2) · Deutsch (1) · Italiano (1) · Nederlands (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 29 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Sky News, 3 Oct, 14:18 UTC.
  2. Second country: Netherlands, with NU.nl.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 3 Oct, 14:18 UTC.
  4. Second region: Middle East, with Al Jazeera.
  5. Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

29 of 29 hours

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The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

86%14%

  • Europe 6 outlets · 5 countries · 86%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%

First movers

  1. Sky News 3 Oct, 14:18 UTC
  2. NU.nl +41m
  3. Der Standard +1h 58m
  4. Al Jazeera +1h 59m
  5. Observador +5h 6m

Last to join

  1. Público 4 Oct, 08:22 UTC
  2. Rai News 3 Oct, 20:38 UTC
  3. Observador 3 Oct, 19:24 UTC
  4. Al Jazeera 3 Oct, 16:16 UTC
  5. Der Standard 3 Oct, 16:16 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 6 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 5: Austria, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Qatar. 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
German, English, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese.
Timeline
Earliest article Sky News, 3 Oct 2026, 14:18 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 15:50 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 19:18 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
0.00, 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
Continued by UEFA bars Israeli journalists after tense Ireland media session. 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
3 Oct 2026 130 6.05 6 6 6 6 4.0
4 Oct 2026 225 2.98 7 6 2 2 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 3 Oct, 15:50 UTC · Updated 4 Oct, 19:18 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Europe 6 outlets

  • Sky News United Kingdom 4 Oct, 19:18 UTC
    Israeli journalists banned from media call after Republic of Ireland match
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    • Ireland's football media call ends in chaos after question by Israeli journalist 3 Oct, 14:18 UTC
  • Público Portugal 4 Oct, 08:22 UTC
    Acusações de racismo interrompem conferência de imprensa antes do jogo Irlanda-Israel
  • Rai News Italy 3 Oct, 20:38 UTC
    Calcio, interrotta conferenza stampa del ct dell'Irlanda per tensioni con giornalisti israeliani
  • Observador Portugal 3 Oct, 19:24 UTC
    Troca de acusações interrompe antevisão do Israel-Irlanda
  • Der Standard Austria 3 Oct, 16:16 UTC
    Eklat vor Fußball-Länderspiel gegen Israel: Irlands Pressekonferenz abgebrochen
  • NU.nl Netherlands 3 Oct, 14:59 UTC
    Video | Persconferentie Ierse bondscoach gestopt na vraag Israëlische journalist

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Al Jazeera Qatar 3 Oct, 16:16 UTC
    Israeli reporters’ ‘verbal attack’ cuts short Ireland press conference
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