Ireland players' bowed heads lift RTÉ News far off its routine
A single day-old clip is moving almost as fast as the Irish broadcaster's entire channel usually does, and its comment section is busy.
RTÉ NewsStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 364,010 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (22,415).
Ireland players bow heads during Israeli anthem | #rtenews
Among news channels with around a quarter of a million subscribers, Ireland's public broadcaster was already drawing the most daily views, ahead of The Root, Washington Week PBS and RNZ. It did not need a breakout to stand out.
It got one anyway. "Ireland players bow heads during Israeli anthem | #rtenews" went up on Sunday, and its first day ran at roughly sixteen times the pace a new RTÉ News upload usually opens with. On its own, that one clip is moving nearly as fast as the whole channel normally does in a day.
The title describes a single moment: the players, heads lowered, while the anthem plays. It does not name the match or add anything else. The response has not been silent, either. Comments are arriving at a steady clip, about one for every five likes.
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- Channel
- RTÉ News
- Subscribers
- 251,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 425,145
- Video published
- September 27, 2026
- Video views so far
- 131,106 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 364,010
The numbers
The figures below show how far this clip has pulled ahead of a typical first day on RTÉ News.
