{"id":35236,"date":"2025-09-21T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/35236\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:47:07","slug":"things-take-a-nasty-turn-as-another-falls-at-the-roundtable-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/35236\/","title":{"rendered":"Things take a nasty turn as another falls at the roundtable \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daggers are drawn and tears cascade as The Traitors Ireland (RT\u00c9 One, 9.30pm) turns personal at the start of its final week. \u201cYou\u2019re all mean girls and I\u2019m a faithful,\u201d says Joanna after she is ganged up on \u2013 and voted off \u2013 at an excruciatingly tense round table. <\/p>\n

The crying isn\u2019t over. As one of the \u201cmean girls\u201d \u2013 Joanna\u2019s words \u2013 who led the charge, Vanessa is crestfallen. \u201cIt\u2019s just the realisation I\u2019m a dickhead,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n

Kelley is even more devastated. Joanna gifted her with a shield, and she repaid it by putting the other woman\u2019s name down on her miniature chalkboard of doom. \u201cTo Joanna, I want to say I\u2019m sorry,\u201d she says. \u201cI hate thinking she\u2019s left the game with a sour taste in her mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n

How did it all turn so nasty? The answer is that, with the last of the original traitors, Paudie<\/a>, gone, the faithful have turned on one another \u2013 if \u201cturn\u201d can capture the sheer unpleasantness of the round table. <\/p>\n

[\u00a0The Traitors\u2019 Kevin McGahern: \u2018What separates the Irish show is our ability to tell the truth in a sarcastic way and get away with a lie\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

It all goes back to a misunderstanding about whether or not Joanna asked Oyin and Vanessa why they didn\u2019t vote for Faye at a previous round table. On one side are Faye, Vanessa and Oyin \u2013 plus a less vengeful Kelley, who is without a natural ally after her bestie Amy is murdered during the night. <\/p>\n

On the other is Joanna. Now flying without her wingman, Paudie, she has always been open about not forging any close links with the other women contestants. She followed her own path \u2013 and it\u2019s led straight to the exit.<\/p>\n

Her departure is horrible to watch \u2013 especially as the infighting is exclusively among the faithful. Still, there are bright points in the third last instalment \u2013 not least a novel task involving a creepy ruin on the hill of Slane, where the players are required to stuff out torches belonging to the contestant they trust the least. <\/p>\n

Poor Joanna gets all her fires put out \u2013 but with the consolation prize of a shield (which she gives to the ultimately ungrateful Kelley) and a dagger, that gives her two votes at the round table, which she directs at Vanessa. <\/p>\n

As skin and hair fly, what about the traitors? It\u2019s the bromantic duo of Nick and Ben \u2013 and what an easy time they have of it. Instead of needing to plot or lie, all they have to do is stand back and let the drama between the \u201cMean Girls\u201d and Joanna play out (there is also under-the-radar faithful Wilkin, who could very well sleepwalk into Tuesday\u2019s final). <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s ours to lose,\u201d observes Nick \u2013 and it might be the smartest thing anyone says in the entire episode. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daggers are drawn and tears cascade as The Traitors Ireland (RT\u00c9 One, 9.30pm) turns personal at the start…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,6569],"class_list":["post-35236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-the-traitors-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35236","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=35236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}