{"id":585819,"date":"2026-08-07T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585819\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:54:09","slug":"release-date-announced-for-new-season-of-the-traitors-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585819\/","title":{"rendered":"Release date announced for new season of\u00a0The Traitors Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=hotpress&amp;text=Release+date+announced+for+new+season+of+%3Ci%3EThe+Traitors+Ireland%3C%2Fi%3E&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotpress.com%2Ffilm-tv%2Frelease-date-announced-for-new-season-of-the-traitors-ireland-23156231%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_campaign%3Darticle%26utm_medium%3Dweb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The show\u2019s second season is set to air on Sunday, August 30 on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Traitors Ireland\u00a0is set to make its return to RT\u00c9 One and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/player\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">RT\u00c9 Player<\/a> on Sunday, August 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will see\u00a0Siobh\u00e1n McSweeny\u00a0back in the hosting chair, while <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/tag\/slane-castle\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"216105\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slane Castle<\/a> will once again provide the setting to the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hidden among the players, a select few will be secretly chosen as Traitors, while the rest become Faithfuls. The players will compete in challenges to win money for the prize pot of up to \u20ac50,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the show,\u00a0Kevin McGahern\u00a0will host\u00a0The Traitors Ireland Uncloaked, featuring interviews with celebrity guests and those who have been murdered or banished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Filmed in RT\u00c9 Limerick, each episode will feature exclusive interviews and unseen footage and air straight after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/tag\/the-traitors-ireland\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"220691\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Traitors Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Once again,\u2019 said Mair\u00e9ad Whelan, Series Producer, Kite Entertainment, \u2018we\u2019ve leaned into our own humour, culture, and characters to bring audiences another distinctively Irish version of\u00a0The Traitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018This series is riddled with all the twists, turns and tears of an All- Ireland Final, but with new players, it\u2019s a brand new game. Our Traitors and Faithful played a blinder, getting stuck into lies, accusations, murders, missions, banishments and the occasional croissant. We couldn\u2019t be prouder of them or of the creative and talented team behind the scenes that made it all happen.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The show\u2019s second season is set to air on Sunday, August 30 on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-585819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585819","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=585819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}