Cork city got its first Traitors Ireland winner on Tuesday night when medic Diego Caixeta took the crown with fellow faithful Anna, after banishing their final two opponents \u2014 traitors Carla and Pauric O.<\/p>\n
Diego, who also revealed to Anna that he was married to fellow contestant Denis Ryan, shared the \u20ac45,850 prize pot with the Dublin-based postal worker.<\/p>\n
Denis, a psychotherapist and writer, is from Leap in West Cork, and was \u2018murdered\u2019 earlier in the series. The couple live in Douglas.<\/p>\n
On winning the title, Diego, who works in surgery in CUH, said he intended to spend his share of the cash \u2014 \u20ac22,925 \u2014 on a honeymoon with his husband.<\/p>\n
He told RT\u00c9 on Wednesday that he had not yet organised it. \u201cWe are still planning it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
He also revealed that in his former role, in a nursing home in Dublin, one of his first patients was the Irish painter Louis le Brocquy.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was such a beautiful man, I felt very privileged,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Denis is calling on people across Cork to sign up and host a coffee morning event in support of Marymount, following his experience with the hospice during his uncle\u2019s illness.<\/p>\n
The appeal has a particularly personal significance for the West Cork man, following the loss of his uncle Denis to cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDenis was only in Marymount for a short time before he died, but I will forever be grateful to the care, respect, and dignity provided by the incredible staff,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork city got its first Traitors Ireland winner on Tuesday night when medic Diego Caixeta took the crown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7328,79,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-635093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-film-tv","tag-cork-news","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635093","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=635093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}