{"id":415237,"date":"2026-04-24T13:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415237\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:18:09","slug":"galway-man-shares-behind-the-scenes-of-rte-first-dates-as-i-walked-in-the-nerves-just-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415237\/","title":{"rendered":"Galway man shares behind the scenes of RT\u00c9 First Dates \u2013 \u2018As I walked in, the nerves just hit\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Conor admits he was 'very nervous' appearing on the show\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d2b72fe0-c851-488a-a128-18eca7dd0130.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)\">Conor admits he was &#8216;very nervous&#8217; appearing on the show<\/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 young Galway man who starred in RT\u00c9 First Dates has revealed what the experience was like to appear on the Irish hit dating show \u2013 and how he very nearly didn\u2019t go through with it.<\/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)\">Conor Yule was the latest Galwegian to appear on First Dates Ireland, which aired its 12th episode of the current series on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor admits he was &#8216;very nervous&#8217; appearing on the show A young Galway man who starred in RT\u00c9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,180589,61,60,13131],"class_list":{"0":"post-415237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-galway-news","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jessica-mercer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415237","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=415237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}