{"id":304323,"date":"2026-02-18T13:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304323\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:45:14","slug":"paul-williams-the-monk-play-would-have-been-so-much-better-without-one-thing-gerry-hutch-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304323\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Williams: \u2018The Monk\u2019 play would have been so much better without one thing \u2013 Gerry Hutch himself"},"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\">Criminal\u2019s surprise appearance in prologue was bizarre\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771422314_202_video.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)\">Rex Ryan: I never asked the Monk about the Regency, I didn&#8217;t want to know<\/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)\">Rex Ryan\u2019s \u00adcontroversial one-man show, The Monk, bears testament to his superb talents as a theatrical multi-tasker \u2013 writer, director, producer and actor \u2013 who is undoubtedly destined for great things.<\/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)\">The son of shock-jock Gerry, one of Ireland\u2019s greatest broadcasters who relished pushing the parameters to provoke debate and challenge consensus, has shown that he is a chip off the old block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Criminal\u2019s surprise appearance in prologue was bizarre Rex Ryan: I never asked the Monk about the Regency, I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,70422,61,60,104113,6085,70423],"class_list":{"0":"post-304323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gerry-hutch","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-paul-williams","14":"tag-rte","15":"tag-veronica-guerin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304323","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=304323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}