{"id":447859,"date":"2026-05-14T04:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447859\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:17:19","slug":"dail-spending-watchdog-urged-to-examine-rtes-e855000-toy-show-appeal-consultancy-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447859\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e1il spending watchdog urged to examine RT\u00c9\u2019s \u20ac855,000 \u2018Toy Show\u2019 appeal consultancy bill"},"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\">Since its inception in 2020, the charity appeal has raised more than \u20ac30m in public donations\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patrick Kielty hosts The 'Late Late Toy Show' in 2023. Photo: Andres Poveda\/ RT\u00c9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/166efac5-96fa-450e-9e33-97e6fca60dcb.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)\">Patrick Kielty hosts The &#8216;Late Late Toy Show&#8217; in 2023. Photo: Andres Poveda\/ RT\u00c9<\/p>\n<p>Aisling Moloney and Gordon Deegan<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at 06:30<\/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)\">The D\u00e1il spending watchdog has been urged to examine RT\u00c9\u2019s \u20ac855,000 proposed spend on consultants related to The Late Late Toy Show appeal donations.<\/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)\">The money will be paid over five years to assist with distributing the millions of euro generated by the charity appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since its inception in 2020, the charity appeal has raised more than \u20ac30m in public donations Patrick Kielty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15049,93,61,60,8581,6085,1419,7539],"class_list":["post-447859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dail-eireann","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-revolut","tag-rte","tag-social-democrats","tag-the-late-late-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447859","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=447859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}