{"id":54525,"date":"2025-10-01T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/54525\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:13:08","slug":"brendan-courtney-on-rte-radio-hopes-youd-be-missing-a-trick-not-to-go-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/54525\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Courtney on RT\u00c9 radio hopes: \u2018You\u2019d be missing a trick not to go for it&#8217;"},"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\">Presenter thinks he has what it takes to present his own programme as Radio 1 undergoes shake-up\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brendan Courtney often fills in for Ray D'Arcy and Oliver Callan on RT\u00c9 radio. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/46fe18b0-36cb-4e55-ae01-463d48716e24.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)\">Brendan Courtney often fills in for Ray D&#8217;Arcy and Oliver Callan on RT\u00c9 radio. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/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 Courtney has thrown his hat into the ring amid the schedule shake-up at RT\u00c9 Radio 1.<\/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 TV presenter and broadcaster (54) has already expressed an interest to director of audio Patricia Monahan as he looks towards new challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presenter thinks he has what it takes to present his own programme as Radio 1 undergoes shake-up Brendan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6130,93,61,60,6132,34252,6085,6129],"class_list":["post-54525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-claire-byrne","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joe-duffy-broadcaster","tag-melanie-finn","tag-rte","tag-rte-radio-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54525","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=54525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}