{"id":12448,"date":"2025-09-10T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/12448\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:36:08","slug":"tanya-sweeney-the-trolls-attacking-the-traitors-villain-eamon-okeeffe-are-ruining-the-spirit-of-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/12448\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanya Sweeney: The trolls attacking The Traitors\u2019 villain Eamon O\u2019Keeffe are ruining the spirit of the show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">It shows how many people fail to grasp the very basic reality that this is a game show\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eamon O\u2019Keeffe irked people by becoming the panto-villain of \u2018The Traitors Ireland\u2019. Photo: RT\u00c9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/itors_Ireland_Eamon.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Eamon O\u2019Keeffe irked people by becoming the panto-villain of \u2018The Traitors Ireland\u2019. Photo: RT\u00c9<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You may have heard of The Traitors Ireland. You may well be one of the 600,000-odd people who tuned in to the first episode on RT\u00c9 One and have been glued ever since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">And if you are, you\u2019ll get the gist of the game by now: that the \u2018traitors\u2019, as chosen by host Siobh\u00e1n McSweeney, need to be fairly deceptive, two-faced and backstabby in order to get ahead and stay undetected. The job spec is fairly straightforward \u2013 lie like you are being paid by the hour to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It shows how many people fail to grasp the very basic reality that this is a game show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,12271],"class_list":["post-12448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tanya-sweeney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}