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Why are Ireland vs Israel football matches so controversial?

11 publications, in the order they reported. The story spread over 90 hours 50 minutes. Words in highlight are ones the first headline did not use. All top stories · On NewsMarkets

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Publications over time

14:36 UTC09:26 UTC11 publications
Publications in order of reporting
#Time (UTC)After the firstPublicationHeadline
1firstAl JazeeraWhy are Ireland vs Israel football matches so controversial?
2+26 hours 24 minutesThe GuardianIsrael’s match with Republic of Ireland will be an eerie occasion as political debate rages on by Paul MacInnes
3+44 hours 9 minutesBBCRepublic of Ireland news conference delayed before controversial Israel game
4+45 hours 26 minutesSky NewsUncertainty over Ireland vs Israel Nations League game after training and news conference delayed
5+48 hours 21 minutesCBS SportsRepublic of Ireland will face Israel in Nations League after team vote to boycott match fails by Francesco Porzio
6+48 hours 46 minutesESPNIreland players vote to play controversial matches vs. Israel by PA
7+65 hours 59 minutesFrance 24Irish players to wear black armbands to boycott Israel by FRANCE24
8+73 hours 8 minutesFox NewsIrish PM rejects antisemitism concerns in Ireland amid dramatic vote over boycotting Israel game
9+74 hours 12 minutesMother JonesIrish Soccer Fans Call for Boycotting Matches With Israel by Alex Nguyen
10+78 hours 6 minutesSky SportsRepublic of Ireland beat Israel in controversial Nations League meeting
11+90 hours 50 minutesDeutsche WelleIreland beat Israel 3-0 in Nations League match overshadowed by political controversy

Who covered it, by audience

8 of 11 publications on this story have an audience score.

Publications by the political lean of their audience
Audience leans Democratic (5)Mixed audience (1)Audience leans Republican (2)

Audience lean comes from Robertson, R. E., Jiang, S., Joseph, K., Friedland, L., Lazer, D., and Wilson, C. (2018), Auditing Partisan Audience Bias within Google Search, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2(CSCW), article 148, used with the authors' permission. The score shows which party's registered voters, on Twitter, shared an outlet's links more. It is not a rating of the outlet's own slant, and it dates from 2018. See how we use it.