{"id":32851,"date":"2025-09-20T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/32851\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:11:09","slug":"pat-stacey-the-traitors-ireland-has-been-great-but-the-low-budget-challenges-and-measly-prize-pot-have-let-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/32851\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Stacey: \u2018The Traitors Ireland\u2019 has been great \u2013 but the low-budget challenges and measly prize pot have let it down"},"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\">\nThe Irish version of the show is RT\u00c9\u2019s biggest hit in years \u2013 all the more reason why they should reinvest the advertising windfall\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Siobh\u00e1n McSweeney is a class act as host of \u2018The Traitors Ireland\u2019, yet her droll presence can\u2019t hide the more threadbare elements of the show. Photo: RT\u00c9\/Kite\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4378d101-bd99-4af8-872c-69f4a8a9548f.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)\">Siobh\u00e1n McSweeney is a class act as host of \u2018The Traitors Ireland\u2019, yet her droll presence can\u2019t hide the more threadbare elements of the show. Photo: RT\u00c9\/Kite<\/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)\">You can do a lot with \u20ac50,000. It won\u2019t buy you a house, it\u2019s true, but it will give you a juicy deposit on one.<\/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)\">Alternatively, it will buy you a really nice car \u2013 even two really nice cars if you go for small and compact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish version of the show is RT\u00c9\u2019s biggest hit in years \u2013 all the more reason why&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,9617],"class_list":["post-32851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-pat-stacey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32851","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=32851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}