{"id":347041,"date":"2026-03-15T05:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/347041\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T05:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:24:19","slug":"declan-lynch-just-announced-as-host-of-arena-rick-oshea-could-have-claimed-squatters-rights-to-that-hot-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/347041\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Lynch: Just announced as host of Arena, Rick O\u2019Shea could have claimed squatter\u2019s rights to that hot seat"},"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=\"Rick O'Shea is the perfect host. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e95fd477-a38a-4c3d-9c80-e03ce11973c2.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)\">Rick O&#8217;Shea is the perfect host. 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)\">When you boil it down to its \u00adessence, \u00adFather Ted was about providing \u00adanswers to the question: what do priests do all day? Sometimes I ask myself the same question about RT\u00c9\u2019s top executives, but alas, the answers do not come so easily. And when they do, they are not very amusing. <\/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)\">Take the example of Arena, (weekdays, 7pm) RT\u00c91\u2019s arts programme which is presented on weeknights by Rick O\u2019Shea. It was always going to be difficult to find a suitable replacement for the late and much-loved Se\u00e1n Rocks, but Rick, fair play to him, has answered the call. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radio reviews Rick O&#8217;Shea is the perfect host. Photo: Steve Humphreys When you boil it down to its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17562,93,61,60,6992,6129],"class_list":["post-347041","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\/347041","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=347041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}