{"id":610691,"date":"2026-09-01T00:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/610691\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T00:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:58:12","slug":"the-traitors-ireland-secrets-suspicions-and-a-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/610691\/","title":{"rendered":"The Traitors Ireland: Secrets, suspicions and a shock"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Traitors Ireland returned on Monday night, with the first murder, the first Round Table and suspicions already taking hold in the castle.<\/p>\n

There were some impressively sharp instincts, one very well-hidden relationship and a dramatic end to the night.<\/p>\n

***Spoiler warning: The following contains details from episode two of The Traitors Ireland.***<\/p>\n

Here are the key moments from episode two:<\/p>\n

\"The
\nThe contestants gather for breakfast after their first day in the castle – who has been murdered?<\/p>\n

Edelle becomes the fourth Traitor<\/p>\n

The episode opened with the reveal that Edelle had been chosen to join Carla, Fionula and P\u00e1raic K as the fourth Traitor.<\/p>\n

There was a catch. She would not discover who her fellow Traitors were until the following night’s conclave.<\/p>\n

\"Edelle
\nEdelle becomes the fourth Traitor<\/p>\n

Instead, her first task was to choose the first murder from Emma, Denis and Kayleigh.<\/p>\n

Edelle picked Emma, explaining that she knew her least and felt keeping Denis and Kayleigh could benefit her later in the game.<\/p>\n

Emma admitted she was “raging” to be the first player murdered, but took her early exit in good spirits.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t know what I could have done differently,” she said. “But I enjoyed it.”<\/p>\n

Pete gets very close to the truth<\/p>\n

Edelle may not have known who her fellow Traitors were, but Pete spotted an interaction that was far more significant than he realised.<\/p>\n

After P\u00e1raic K went over to Edelle and squeezed her arm, Pete joked that it looked “like a meeting of Traitors”.<\/p>\n

He was almost exactly right.<\/p>\n

\"Pete
\nPete appears to have good instincts<\/p>\n

P\u00e1raic knew Edelle had been recruited, while Edelle still had no idea that he was a Traitor.<\/p>\n

Pete kept watching P\u00e1raic and later questioned his change in demeanour at the Round Table.<\/p>\n

P\u00e1raic looked him directly in the eye and insisted: “I\u2019m 100% Faithful.”<\/p>\n

Denis and Diego are hiding a major secret<\/p>\n

The day\u2019s mission saw the players pair up for a musical chairs-style challenge, with money for the prize pot and shields up for grabs.<\/p>\n

Denis and Diego made no secret of the fact that survival came first, with Denis memorably declaring: “F*** the money.”<\/p>\n

\"Denis
\nDenis was focused on survival during tonight’s mission<\/p>\n

It worked. The pair were the last couple standing, winning two shields, while the group managed to bank just \u20ac1,400 of a possible \u20ac4,000.<\/p>\n

Diego compared their victory to “an Olympic medal in Irish dancing”.<\/p>\n

Then came the bigger reveal.<\/p>\n

\"Diego
\nDiego and Denis revealed they are married!<\/p>\n

Denis told viewers that Diego is actually his husband of 11 years, something the other players do not know.<\/p>\n

“He is a way better husband than he is a dancer,” Diego joked. “He\u2019s just the best.”<\/p>\n

Laura puts Edelle under pressure<\/p>\n

The first Round Table saw suspicion fly in several directions.<\/p>\n

DJ found himself in trouble after admitting he had lied about his job, telling Fionula that he worked in the parts department of a car dealership when he is actually a car salesman.<\/p>\n

But Laura had been watching Edelle closely.<\/p>\n

\"Siobhan
\nSparks flew at the first round table<\/p>\n

She questioned a string of small things she had noticed, including Edelle\u2019s behaviour after the Traitor selection and how distracted she appeared afterwards.<\/p>\n

Edelle dismissed the case against her as “nonsense” and insisted she was simply nervous and fidgety.<\/p>\n

“I said I wanted to be a Traitor,” she told the table. “Unfortunately, I\u2019m not.”<\/p>\n

The Faithfuls strike first<\/p>\n

The vote became an extraordinarily close contest between DJ and Edelle, with the pair level on eight votes at one stage.<\/p>\n

But Edelle eventually received the most votes and was banished.<\/p>\n

Asked to reveal whether she was a Faithful or a Traitor, she told the group: “I am a Traitor.”<\/p>\n

The room erupted.<\/p>\n

The Faithfuls had caught a Traitor at their very first Round Table, and Edelle\u2019s time on the other side was over before she had even made it to the conclave to meet her teammates.<\/p>\n

“Poor Edelle didn\u2019t even get into the conclave and we threw her under the bus,” Fionula later said. “But it was necessary.”<\/p>\n

Laura gets it right, then gets it wrong<\/p>\n

Catching Edelle should have been an unqualified win for the Faithfuls, but Laura quickly drew one conclusion that could play straight into the Traitors\u2019 hands.<\/p>\n

She said she did not believe the remaining Traitors would have voted out one of their own so early.<\/p>\n

In fact, Carla and P\u00e1raic K had done exactly that.<\/p>\n

Their votes for Edelle could now help shield them from suspicion, while Fionula was far less comfortable with how quickly her teammates had turned on their new recruit.<\/p>\n

\"Fionula,
\nFionula, Carla and Paraic K gather to murder another Faithful<\/p>\n

Back in the conclave, she admitted she felt “slightly thrown under the bus”.<\/p>\n

And after helping to catch the first Traitor, Laura had made herself a target. She was quickly discussed as a possible next murder, alongside Se\u00e1n C and Pauric O.<\/p>\n

Who has been murdered? All will be revealed on Tuesday episode.<\/p>\n

The Traitors Ireland continues on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Traitors Ireland returned on Monday night, with the first murder, the first Round Table and suspicions already…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-610691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610691","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=610691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}