{"id":364020,"date":"2026-03-25T08:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/364020\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T08:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:41:11","slug":"bryan-dobson-i-didnt-want-another-job-and-didnt-want-to-be-committed-to-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/364020\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Dobson: \u2018I didn\u2019t want another job and didn\u2019t want to be committed to something\u2019"},"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\">The broadcaster on life after RT\u00c9, the late Irish novelist John McGahern, and why he said no to starting his own podcast\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bryan Dobson. Photo: Johnny Savage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/78f55467-79be-4de7-9ce2-8b482b43cc26.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)\">Bryan Dobson. Photo: Johnny Savage<\/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)\">Bryan Dobson is a journalist from Sandymount in Dublin. Best known as a former presenter of the Six One news on RT\u00c9, he retired two years ago after nearly four decades at the national broadcaster. He lives with his wife in Dublin, and is kept busy with two grandchildren, along with his contributions to podcasts and column writing. <\/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)\">What\u2019s your earliest memory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The broadcaster on life after RT\u00c9, the late Irish novelist John McGahern, and why he said no to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29425,93,61,60,6085],"class_list":["post-364020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aoife-rooney","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364020","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=364020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}