{"id":125152,"date":"2025-11-06T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/125152\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:59:08","slug":"this-weeks-late-late-show-guests-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/125152\/","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s Late Late Show guests revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan stars Steve Coogan and \u00c9anna Hardwicke, leader of the Social Democrats Holly Cairns, and new Liveline presenter Kieran Cuddihy are among the guests on this week&#8217;s Late Late Show.<\/p>\n<p>Actors Coogan and Hardwicke will talk about their starring roles in the highly-antipated film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2025\/0905\/1531894-mccarthy-and-keane-clash-brought-to-life-in-saipan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Saipan<\/a> about the infamous 2002 World Cup bust-up between Ireland manager Mick McCarthy and star player Roy Keane.<\/p>\n<p>The pair will share how they prepared to step into the shoes of two of the most talked-about figures in Irish sporting history.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0021c2e7-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nSteve Coogan and \u00c9anna Hardwicke in Saipan<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Kielty will sit down with Kieran Cuddihy ahead of his debut as the new host of RT\u00c9 Radio 1&#8217;s Liveline next Monday, as the show prepares to celebrate 40 years on air.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers will get the chance to get to know the man behind the mic, as Cuddihy will reflect on growing up in Kilkenny, his career to date and what it means to him to take over from Joe Duffy on one of Ireland&#8217;s most iconic radio shows.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liveline presenter Kieran Cuddihy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/00236eb9-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nNew Liveline presenter Kieran Cuddihy<\/p>\n<p>Holly Cairns, leader of the Social Democrats, will discuss the current political landscape, the challenges facing the left opposition and her vision for Ireland\u2019s future. She\u2019ll also share her take on the week in politics, including the fallout from the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Singer-songwriter Nell Mescal will take to the Late Late Show stage with a live performance of her brand-new single. She will also chat about her upcoming headline tour, her rise in the music world and the encouragement she receives from her brother, actor Paul Mescal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Holly Cairns\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/00232cf6-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nSocial Democrats leader Holly Cairns for The Late Late Show<\/p>\n<p>Comedian Jarlath Regan will be in studio to talk about how he is an expert in spotting a gobs***e and how Irishisms continue to inspire his comedy.<\/p>\n<p>One lucky child will have their dream come true live on air, as they discover they\u2019ll be performing in this year\u2019s Late Late Toy Show, and there&#8217;ll be even more big news in store for Toy Show fans.<\/p>\n<p>The Late Late Show, Friday nights at 9.35pm on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saipan stars Steve Coogan and \u00c9anna Hardwicke, leader of the Social Democrats Holly Cairns, and new Liveline presenter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-125152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125152","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=125152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}