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‘The Traitors Ireland’ Episode 9.<\/p>\n“Paranoia is definitely in full swing,\u201d Faye observes in the opening five minutes of Tuesday’s episode.<\/p>\n
Everyone is at the breakfast table this morning, including Christine, who we saw get the deadly hug from Nick at the conclusion of the previous episode.<\/p>\n
To bring some clarity to the situation, Siobh\u00e1n McSweeney lets the faithful know that the traitors have placed an ancient curse on one of them, and they\u2019ll be dead by the day\u2019s end. Swallow that with your toast…<\/p>\n
Talk immediately turns to what the piseog could possibly be \u2014 a champagne bottle opened? A drink poured? So far, Nick is in the clear \u2014 no one has copped it was a deathly hug.<\/p>\n
Christine, despite not knowing what we know, seems to have a sixth sense that her time is coming to an end and she immediately races to tell all the faithfuls her theory about Ben being a traitor before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n
One of Ben\u2019s suspicious moves? Playing with his beard.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you had a beard, you\u2019d know,\u201d Ben says exasperated. \u201cYeah..\u201d Will says, stroking his own beard.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Joanna confesses to Paudie she feels she doesn\u2019t have an alliance in the castle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re all so young,\u201d she sighs.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re telling me,\u201d Paudie scoffs.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no fun and games at today\u2019s mission. No, it\u2019s a much more sombre affair.<\/p>\n
The faithfuls (and the traitors among them) are here for a funeral \u2014 they just aren\u2019t sure for who.<\/p>\n
\u201cI swear to God girls, if one of you backstabbed me, I will haunt you for the rest of your life,\u201d Christine mutters.<\/p>\n
On their walk to our Cork faithful’s final resting place, the contestants answer questions while keeners wail behind them.<\/p>\n
‘The Traitors Ireland’ Episode 9.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhoever is going to die has plenty of support,\u201d Christine quips.<\/p>\n
The procession makes their way back to the castle, where Christine, Faye, and Ben are placed in open coffins. Siobh\u00e1n asks each of the contestants to place black roses in the coffin of the person they believe has been murdered. If they guess right, they\u2019ll bank \u20ac2,000.<\/p>\n
The contestants guess Ben\u00a0\u2014 losing the game, and losing their Cork cail\u00edn.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was so horrible, I wouldn\u2019t wish it on anyone,\u201d Faye gasps between tears. \u201cI need a cup of tea.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Back at the castle, tensions are high heading into the ninth roundtable.<\/p>\n
\u201cFaye was shitting it,\u201d he tells Nick and Amy, \u201cI know she\u2019s a faithful.\u201d He\u2019s not so sure now about his good pal Nick.<\/p>\n
Amy, sensing there\u2019s a hard talk coming between the two bros, makes herself scarce. \u201cDo yous want a cup of tea?\u201d she offers, legging it out of the room.<\/p>\n
Nick manages to convince Ben he\u2019s not a traitor by arguing if he was, he would have given Ben the boot already (We aren\u2019t sure how this bodes, given he\u2019s let us know earlier in the episode his plan is to get rid of Ben next).<\/p>\n
At the actual roundtable, Vanessa\u2019s name is brought to the table by a number of contestants, mostly, it seems, because she hasn\u2019t been looked at before.<\/p>\n
Ben reckons one of his mates is keeping him in the game, and unwilling to throw Faye or Nick under the bus, he offers that it might, in fact, be Vanessa. Or Paudie, he supposes.<\/p>\n
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‘The Traitors Ireland’ contestant Paudie.<\/p>\n
Paudie, as he is now known to do, lashes out like a scorpion.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre the two of ye [Ben and Nick] working together?\u201d he seethes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe two of ye have, for some reason, come after me tonight,\u201d he continues, \u201cI am telling everyone else… watch it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oyin, brings up her traitor-on-traitor theory once more, this time adding another nugget to her theory that Eamon, Katelyn, and Paudie were the OG traitors.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last thing Eamon did was vote for you and say: \u2018You are really bad at this game\u2019,\u201d she tells Paudie.<\/p>\n
And finally, it\u2019s enough to convince just enough people at the table to vote for Paudie.<\/p>\n
Siobh\u00e1n seems to be struggling to hide her grin as she invites the prison officer to address the players before he reveals whether he\u2019s a traitor or a faithful.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve a lot to say,\u201d Paudie offers, before dropping the biggest bomb of the series to the unsuspecting faithfuls.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou might not know my family.. You’ve met one of them. My son Andrew. And I am a traitor.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
With Paudie finally sent packing, new traitor Nick is left with the most important decision of the game \u2014 who to recruit as his ally to take to the final and beat the faithfuls?<\/p>\n
Will he do as none of our traitors have done before and actually pick a woman?<\/p>\n
Unlikely.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The Traitors Ireland airs on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday at 9.30pm on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Paranoia is definitely in full swing,\u201d Faye observes in the opening five minutes of Tuesday’s episode. Everyone is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7328,5658,61,60,43,904],"class_list":["post-25785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-film-tv","tag-irish-examiner-instagram","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25785","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=25785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}