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.

Channel: RTÉ News Story of September 28, 2026Trari Newsroom

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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The numbers

The figures below show how far this clip has pulled ahead of a typical first day on RTÉ News.

the video's first day

usual first day here

22,415

this video

364,010

subscribers

251,000

total views

169,721,956

views per day

425,145

the video

views

131,106

likes

2,343

comments

443

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

RTÉ News

251,000

RNZ

249,000

The Root

248,000

EU Insider

243,000

Washington Week PBS

241,000

Royal Exclusive

241,000

As of September 28, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.