{"id":632909,"date":"2026-09-22T23:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/632909\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:24:10","slug":"the-traitors-ireland-winners-revealed-in-tense-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/632909\/","title":{"rendered":"The Traitors Ireland winners revealed in tense finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

The winners of the second series of The Traitors Ireland have been revealed following a tense finale at Slane Castle.<\/p>\n

***Spoiler alert: This article contains details from the final of The Traitors Ireland.***<\/p>\n

Anna, a 27-year-old postal worker from Dublin, and Diego, a 40-year-old physician associate from Cork, emerged victorious after the final two Traitors, Carla and Pauric O, were banished from the game.<\/p>\n

The result came down to a dramatic endgame, with Diego using a dagger during the final Round Table as the Faithfuls finally closed in on the remaining Traitors.<\/p>\n

Watch: The moment Anna and Diego discover they are both Faithfuls and win The Traitors Ireland<\/p>\n

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Anna and Diego ultimately revealed that they were both Faithfuls after they banished Pauric O at the Fire Pit, securing the \u20ac45,850 prize pot between them.<\/p>\n

They each leave the game with \u20ac22,925.<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Traitors Ireland: Uncloaked after the finale aired, Diego revealed that his suspicions about Pauric had begun to grow in the closing stages of the game.<\/p>\n

He said he began questioning why Pauric, who had been so influential among the group, was still in the castle, but remained unsure whether Pete could also be a Traitor.<\/p>\n

It was Pete’s banishment that finally convinced him.<\/p>\n

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\nFaithfuls Diego and Anna claimed victory on season two of The Traitors Ireland<\/p>\n

“When he stood up and said, ‘I am a Faithful,\u2019 I went, \u2018Oh my God, it\u2019s Pauric!\u2019” Diego said.<\/p>\n

He also said being underestimated had worked to his advantage throughout the series.<\/p>\n

“I tend to be underestimated because I\u2019m not an alpha character,” he said. “I\u2019m still observing. I analyse, and then I think I was more calculated than reacting by emotions.”<\/p>\n

Anna said reaching the end of the game had felt “surreal”.<\/p>\n

“I didn\u2019t expect to last the first week, let alone to the very end,” she said.<\/p>\n

Watch: The final Traitor is banished – Pauric O misses out on winning The Traitors Ireland<\/p>\n

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Diego had entered the competition alongside his husband Denis, with the couple keeping their 11-year marriage secret from their fellow players.<\/p>\n

Denis was murdered by the Traitors earlier in the series, leaving Diego to continue in the game alone.<\/p>\n

The second series began on 30 August with 23 players entering Slane Castle and played out over 12 episodes on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player.<\/p>\n

Watch: Diego makes a special phone call after The Traitors Ireland finale<\/p>\n

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Hosted by Siobh\u00e1n McSweeney, the series saw the Faithfuls attempting to identify and banish the Traitors in their midst while building the prize pot through a series of missions.<\/p>\n

Tuesday night’s finale brought the second series to a close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winners of the second series of The Traitors Ireland have been revealed following a tense finale at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-632909","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\/632909","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=632909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}