{"id":222511,"date":"2026-01-02T00:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/222511\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:10:13","slug":"declan-lynch-there-are-whispers-about-john-creedon-running-for-president-a-terrible-thing-to-inflict-on-a-man-who-has-done-us-no-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/222511\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Lynch: There are whispers about John Creedon running for president \u2013 a terrible thing to inflict on a man who has done us no harm"},"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\">\nRadio reviews\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RT\u00c9 broadcaster John Creedon. Photo: Don MacMonagle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4f009bec-f9a9-4692-8a38-d77a8b06fd2d.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)\">RT\u00c9 broadcaster John Creedon. Photo: Don MacMonagle<\/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)\">A hundred years ago on January 1, the Irish Free State broadcasting service started under the title 2RN \u2013 an anniversary marked by Bowman: Sunday: 8.30 (RT\u00c9 1, Sundays), on which the host used material from a programme that he himself had made on this subject, 50 years ago.<\/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)\">It must be the broadcasting equivalent of an out-of-body experience to find yourself in the archives from half a century ago \u2014 but Bowman merely dropped it discreetly into the background as he described the even stranger beginnings of what they called \u201cwireless broadcasting\u201d in Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radio reviews RT\u00c9 broadcaster John Creedon. Photo: Don MacMonagle A hundred years ago on January 1, the Irish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17562,93,61,60,6992,6129],"class_list":["post-222511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-declan-lynch","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-people-culture-magazine","tag-rte-radio-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222511","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=222511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}