{"id":383490,"date":"2026-04-05T17:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383490\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:24:12","slug":"george-hamilton-broadcaster-on-turning-his-twin-passions-music-and-sport-into-careers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383490\/","title":{"rendered":"George Hamilton: Broadcaster on turning his twin passions music and sport\u00a0into careers"},"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 leaving RT\u00c9 Sport, and how love of music became a second career\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"George Hamilton with his dogs Brenda and Ralph. Photo: Presseye\/Stephen Hamilton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775409852_370_e7fc8093-a2b3-4754-b681-6187e1620ea9.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)\">George Hamilton with his dogs Brenda and Ralph. Photo: Presseye\/Stephen Hamilton<\/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)\">In a week in which the Irish soccer team fought so valiantly to qualify for the World Cup, it feels oddly comforting to speak to George Hamilton.<\/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)\">In victory or defeat, that soft northern accent was the soundtrack to the glory year of 1990 and his commentary \u2013 with characteristically brilliant mid-stream asides \u2013 feels as much part of that moment as the pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The broadcaster on leaving RT\u00c9 Sport, and how love of music became a second career George Hamilton with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29575,93,61,60,6992],"class_list":{"0":"post-383490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-donal-lynch","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-people-culture-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383490","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=383490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}