{"id":444575,"date":"2026-05-12T07:19:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444575\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:19:22","slug":"fearless-rte-journalist-brendan-obrien-fondly-remembered-in-wicklow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444575\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearless RT\u00c9 journalist Brendan O\u2019Brien fondly remembered in Wicklow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The late Brendan O'Brien. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3da00c5f-2f02-4547-9c81-3859248cdfd5.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)\">The late Brendan O&#8217;Brien. <\/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)\">Brendan O\u2019Brien, the respected RT\u00c9 journalist who died last week at the age of 82, has been described as \u201cfearless\u201d and \u201cpassionate\u201d by those who worked alongside him professionally, and as \u201ca total gent\u201d and a \u201cgentle soul\u201d by Wicklow residents who knew him personally.<\/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)\">He enjoyed a long career in broadcasting, most notably with RT\u00c9, where he worked from 1974 to 2002 on flagship current affairs programmes including Today Tonight and Prime Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The late Brendan O&#8217;Brien. Brendan O\u2019Brien, the respected RT\u00c9 journalist who died last week at the age of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,10687,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-444575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-tom-galvin","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444575","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=444575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}