{"id":236767,"date":"2026-01-09T22:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/236767\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:15:17","slug":"declan-lynch-minister-thomas-byrne-gets-13-minutes-of-studs-at-the-hands-of-colm-o-mongain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/236767\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Lynch: Minister Thomas Byrne gets 13 minutes of \u2018studs\u2019 at the hands of Colm \u00d3 Mong\u00e1in"},"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 presenter Colm \u00d3 Mong\u00e1in has no fear of confrontation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ad08c5c7-75a3-4983-a912-1db8c125d0fe.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 presenter Colm \u00d3 Mong\u00e1in has no fear of confrontation<\/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)\">In a recent feature by Niamh Horan in this paper, Sarah McInerney said that as an \u00adinterviewer, \u201cholding back gets you so much more than going in studs first\u201d. Coming from the latest Morning Ireland (RT\u00c91, weekdays, 7am) co-host, this was a tad troubling for fans who had for long regarded her adversarial approach as an outstanding feature. <\/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)\">\u201cStuds\u201d McInerney seemed to have a heightened awareness that politicians are now over-protected by \u201cspecial \u00adadvisers\u201d, equipped with many new-\u00adfangled tools in their \u00addetermination to say absolutely nothing of any interest to anyone. She knew \u2013 in sporting parlance \u2013 that \u201cyou have to let them know you\u2019re there\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radio reviews RT\u00c9 presenter Colm \u00d3 Mong\u00e1in has no fear of confrontation In a recent feature by Niamh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17562,93,61,60,6992,6129],"class_list":["post-236767","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\/236767","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=236767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}