{"id":380698,"date":"2026-04-03T22:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/380698\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:53:14","slug":"the-young-offenders-season-5-review-a-sparkling-return-to-form-for-our-favourite-tracksuit-clad-corkonians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/380698\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Young Offenders\u2019, Season 5, review: A sparkling return to form for our favourite tracksuit-clad Corkonians"},"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\">Hilarious opening episode proves there\u2019s still plenty of comedy fuel left in the tank\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jock (Chris Walley) and Conor (Alex Murphy) are reunited in Season 5 of 'The Young Offenders'. Photo: BBC\/Vico Films\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d9e01822-537f-4c6d-b420-c4de1842cc87.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)\">Jock (Chris Walley) and Conor (Alex Murphy) are reunited in Season 5 of &#8216;The Young Offenders&#8217;. Photo: BBC\/Vico Films<\/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)\">First, the good news: Leeside\u2019s tracksuit-clad, scut-cut-sporting Laurel and Hardy are back. Now the even better news: they\u2019re back together.<\/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)\">Season 5 of The Young Offenders (RT\u00c9 Player and BBC One, 9.30pm, Friday, April 3; RT\u00c9 One, 10.30pm, Saturday, April 4) sees Conor (Alex Murphy) and Jock (Chris Walley) reunited after five telly-time years apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hilarious opening episode proves there\u2019s still plenty of comedy fuel left in the tank Jock (Chris Walley) and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,9617,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-380698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-pat-stacey","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380698","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=380698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}