{"id":359251,"date":"2026-03-22T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359251\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T11:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:56:10","slug":"there-was-actually-a-great-appetite-for-it-gavan-reilly-steps-up-to-fill-void-left-by-claire-byrnes-rte-exit-with-new-virgin-media-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359251\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There was actually a great appetite for it\u2019 \u2013 Gavan Reilly steps up to fill void left by Claire Byrne\u2019s RT\u00c9 exit with new Virgin Media show"},"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\">Presenter capitalises on vacant pitch to take on new \u2018conversational\u2019 political programme\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gavan Reilly. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sn Gavan Reilly_4.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)\">Gavan Reilly. Photo: Mark Condren<\/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)\">A decision by RT\u00c9 to axe its \u00adMonday night prime-time \u00adcurrent affairs programme cleared the way for a new show on Virgin Media Television, journalist Gavan Reilly has said.<\/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 reporter, who will present the new current affairs series Monday with Gavan Reilly, hopes it will be \u201ca long-term fixture\u201d on the schedules. It starts tomorrow night at 10pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presenter capitalises on vacant pitch to take on new \u2018conversational\u2019 political programme Gavan Reilly. Photo: Mark Condren A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6130,93,61,60,6083,6085,3476],"class_list":["post-359251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-claire-byrne","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-niamh-horan","tag-rte","tag-virgin-media-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359251","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=359251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}