{"id":457379,"date":"2026-05-19T22:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/457379\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:36:08","slug":"rte-chief-defends-extra-payments-to-patrick-kielty-and-says-hed-love-to-keep-him-at-late-late-show-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/457379\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 chief defends extra payments to Patrick Kielty and says he&#039;d &#039;love&#039; to keep him at Late Late Show &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxObnA2WElscDRaV0lneWVRLW44bnE3TWJCX1VNVzQ1c1FpYndLUF95bkZ3U2JrYlQtYjN6QmtrOXVnRmpVc2R4NlRldUdQQ3hMaHNoWmlXekNlU1NrRlpYT0dUai1hd0J2WThjMVNkMW5ibkFtOEJ3VlhneklmOEhxZXE0cW5VR0tZZVA2alY2eF9JamhtVHc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RT\u00c9 chief defends extra payments to Patrick Kielty and says he&#8217;d &#8216;love&#8217; to keep him at Late Late Show<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMioAFBVV95cUxPd0djc215Z3JVS0YzUUlwV2JWSmlVQ2pHaURXcVdKMWpxRnlma0lGS3BTRlpuSDdaNFo5QVBCZ1g5OUNjSVkxZzZtUEQ1UTNxa2pZdmJfUFM1Q1dpRlNhVmJCUDRRLW9vTjZkRUdHb1J4VW1nLXNYbzNSWnNnR3Q2VkNpSkVEb3pvV0tUSTMxYjY3emd3M3JVd25DM3J4Uzgy?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RT\u00c9 DG defends extra payments to Patrick Kielty, would &#8216;love&#8217; him to continue as Late Late Show host<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi0AFBVV95cUxQQWFyc2hKRTVxS3JySUVyN2RaWmZVcDdEcGczREppdEdlOVBnaTM3Z21pZUxzWG5FWVNxMFNzNmRlRUI0eDV5dzVVMWpDUGdvaE10aTY1LWJIeWl2c0hWdEJpMjVWellaOW85MjhOUzFrcmlfT08xZjAxNzd2SkJLdVlmeTNaSTJSUDFrU3VaVENBUkhYdFFxWHVHQUlvQjNLS3hYSVQ0SXFOcDhXOGppUTliN2Z4eEdTcmw4bmhYU2VTc05qSjFrVzBQVnFQRENj?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Letters to the Editor: To whom it concerns, a Late, Late candidate for the job<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMioAFBVV95cUxNWmtaVmpfMFUyTmFoM01UcGhKaTRJczVMZ3F3OXZCZTQ1R2laTEVwVUY0ZEhTMXEwRXRyT29Sb0pleU5qM1NtU1ZzclBiRVZOS29uZ29zSHUyZmppTS00WGc0Q3hCTTRnWkljdWNqdmFZNTFFMndwWFRLdVByeElhMkFZQXdCQ2VWN3NKZmxSOVgtU256SG81ME1tQVA0b2xp?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RT\u00c9 chief defends extra payments to Patrick Kielty<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BreakingNews.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1AFBVV95cUxPWGRTeVVSNmVISnZQTk15czNGUGlFSlMtR0dVTnh6eDNEV0xQeGYwd2pvOFktTTdOUS1xQmpXbXp2WFRhOEhoU3c4ZzN6UnZ3ODVVTlRjSHBCTjQzN3FoNlRrMUFzVFBTX2FnNzB4cWxfaVpJTEVBbGxFamlpN2NiWWJJakNRYlByQlpnRHU2REkzeUUyeGlYX3hHYldjaVphWGtUQ1UzT2Rhd000Z0dXVmV6RmxDUUpsYlpTNXVOV3N3Zml3X1Y1d0lqYTFTTF9BaXR0dQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">As Patrick Kielty gets ready to take over the Late Late Show, stakes are even higher<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 chief defends extra payments to Patrick Kielty and says he&#8217;d &#8216;love&#8217; to keep him at Late Late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,47232,9034,6085,7539],"class_list":["post-457379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kevin-bakhurst","tag-patrick-kielty","tag-rte","tag-the-late-late-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457379","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=457379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}