{"id":155235,"date":"2025-11-23T10:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155235\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T10:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:25:09","slug":"rte-miriam-ocallaghan-on-her-deeply-chilling-encounter-with-ian-paisley-he-had-crossed-a-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155235\/","title":{"rendered":"RTE Miriam O&#8217;Callaghan\u00a0on her \u2018deeply chilling\u2019 encounter with Ian Paisley: \u2018He had crossed a line\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">TV star Miriam O\u2019Callaghan recalls crossing swords with preacher, and day Martin McGuinness hit the roof after she called him out on IRA atrocities\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Miriam O'Callaghan has opened up on one of her early encounters with late DUP leader Ian Paisley.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7153d2c1-3210-41aa-a935-bedf58f6af22.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Miriam O&#8217;Callaghan has opened up on one of her early encounters with late DUP leader Ian Paisley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Irish broadcasting royalty Miriam O\u2019Callaghan has revealed she had a \u201cdeeply chilling experience\u201d with the late Ian Paisley a year before the Good Friday Agreement was signed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The RT\u00c9 presenter has shared her life story in a new memoir, with much of it lifting the lid on her visits to Northern Ireland during the Troubles and the peace process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV star Miriam O\u2019Callaghan recalls crossing swords with preacher, and day Martin McGuinness hit the roof after she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,4819,60,6085],"class_list":["post-155235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ira","tag-ireland","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155235","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=155235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}