{"id":308210,"date":"2026-02-20T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308210\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:22:11","slug":"declan-lynch-it-was-peculiar-that-liveline-didnt-kick-off-mondays-or-tuesdays-show-with-an-update-on-the-seamus-culleton-story-which-had-changed-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308210\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Lynch: It was peculiar that Liveline didn\u2019t kick off Monday\u2019s or Tuesday\u2019s show with an update on the Seamus Culleton story which had changed over the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Whither the tale of Seamus Culleton? Liveline host Kieran Cuddihy. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/e2a519fc-ca82-4cb4-8ced-0c90b5de8f5b.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)\">Whither the tale of Seamus Culleton? Liveline host Kieran Cuddihy. 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)\">The latest radio listenership figures showed \u00adexceptional growth in the audience for Lyric FM. It increased its share to 3.1pc from 2.5pc, the kind of jump which is regarded as freakish by those in the radio audience percentage jump game.  <\/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\u2019s especially interesting \u00adbecause in many ways Lyric FM hasn\u2019t changed. At least it hasn\u2019t changed for the worse, which sometimes can get you more \u00adlisteners than the better stuff. No, I believe it is the world that has changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whither the tale of Seamus Culleton? Liveline host Kieran Cuddihy. Photo: Steve Humphreys The latest radio listenership figures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5456,17562,93,61,60,101340,6133,6992],"class_list":["post-308210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-barack-obama","tag-declan-lynch","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-marty-whelan","tag-newstalk","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308210","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=308210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}