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Israel-Ireland football match draws protests and boycott calls

Rank
Ran
46h
Updated
30h ago
Closed
Outlets
4
Regions
1
Countries
4
Languages
3

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France 24 France · English 4 Oct, 08:27 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Nederlands (2) · Deutsch (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 4 after 47 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: RTL Nieuws, 2 Oct, 17:19 UTC.
  2. Second country: Belgium, with Het Laatste Nieuws.
  3. Last article: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

47 of 47 hours

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The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Europe 4 outlets · 4 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. RTL Nieuws 2 Oct, 17:19 UTC
  2. Het Laatste Nieuws +25h 18m
  3. France 24 +39h 7m
  4. Der Spiegel +46h 52m

The figures

Coverage
4 outlets in 4 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 4 outlets, 1 public-service, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 4: Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands. 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, Dutch.
Timeline
Earliest article RTL Nieuws, 2 Oct 2026, 17:19 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 17:20 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 16:12 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 International. 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
0.01, 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 Ireland soccer players wear armbands, refuse handshakes with Israel. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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Started 2 Oct, 17:20 UTC · Updated 4 Oct, 16:12 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Europe 4 outlets

  • Der Spiegel Germany 4 Oct, 16:12 UTC
    Nation League: Warum das Fußballspiel Irland gegen Israel politisch so aufgeladen ist
  • France 24 France 4 Oct, 08:27 UTC
    Ireland–Israel nations League clash overshadowed by political tensions
  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium 3 Oct, 18:37 UTC
    Spookduels en stille protesten: waarom interland tegen Israël net bij Ieren zoveel woede opwekt
  • RTL Nieuws Netherlands 2 Oct, 17:19 UTC
    Wedstrijd tussen Israël en Ierland onder hoogspanning, fans eisen boycot
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