Joe Biden pelted with objects at Irish university: Former president targeted by protesters at Dublin
- Newsrooms
- 11
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Steady
1 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 11 to 12 newsrooms by 7:50am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 97% of the past week’s 3720 stories, and number 43 of 1585 in News.
1File photo: Joe Biden
His son, Hunter Biden, attended an event to receive a gold medal from the College Historical Society at Trinity College Dublin
The Nightly didn’t include a summary, so this is The Irish Times’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American retired politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009 and also served as the 47th vice president under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.4
The bigger story: Dublin
3 developments since Sun 8 Nov. 1 more since this one.
Joe Biden pelted with objects at Irish university: Former president targeted by protesters at Dublin
You’re here11 newsrooms. Linked by Dublin, arrest, drug
- Spain sees widespread disruption in first general strike for 14 years
9 newsrooms. Linked by Protesters, during, protestors
The story so far
11 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 11
- Newsrooms and sources
- 11
- Last 3 hours
- 1
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (1 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).
First with it: The Irish Times, 2 hr 7 min before anyone else.
Reported by 11 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Reports a day, last 7 days
| Day | Stories |
|---|---|
| Thu | 0 |
| Fri | 0 |
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 0 |
| Mon | 0 |
| Tue | 1 |
| Today | 10 |


