{"id":203501,"date":"2025-12-21T12:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T12:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/203501\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T12:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T12:31:09","slug":"i-didnt-walk-out-sobbing-dj-ronan-collins-reveals-why-he-left-rte-radio-after-46-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/203501\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I didn\u2019t walk out sobbing\u2019 \u2013 DJ Ronan Collins reveals why he left RT\u00c9 radio after 46 years"},"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\">Presenter says broadcaster was \u2018almost crumbling around me\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ronan Collins in RT\u00c9 in December 2022. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/47d6c254-1f6e-421c-a80f-ad26cf857ff1.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)\">Ronan Collins in RT\u00c9 in December 2022. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/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)\">One of RT\u00c9\u2019s longest serving radio presenters, Ronan Collins, has revealed the reason behind his departure from the broadcaster, saying it was down to \u201cred tape\u201d.<\/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)\">Speaking to the Sunday Independent, Collins said this would be his \u201cfinal word\u201d on the matter and that he has no animosity towards RT\u00c9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presenter says broadcaster was \u2018almost crumbling around me\u2019 Ronan Collins in RT\u00c9 in December 2022. Photo: Steve Humphreys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6083,6085],"class_list":["post-203501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-niamh-horan","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203501","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=203501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}