{"id":6778,"date":"2025-09-08T01:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/6778\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T01:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:22:12","slug":"at-rte-the-secret-to-a-successful-career-on-the-radio-is-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/6778\/","title":{"rendered":"At RT\u00c9, the secret to a successful career on the radio is&#8230; timing"},"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\">Plus\u2026 Bob Geldof\u2019s cash, lunch with the Business Post, the Shelbourne re-jig and meet Julie Jargon\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RTE presenter David McCullagh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/9820d04c-fbf4-4077-9bf0-34f1583bf50a.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)\">RTE presenter David McCullagh<\/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)\">RT\u00c9\u2019s panicked announcement that David McCullagh would succeed Claire Byrne as presenter of the mid-morning radio programme was in stark contrast with the faffing about over who will replace Joe Duffy on Liveline.<\/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)\">However, there was one notable dissenter against the choice of McCullagh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plus\u2026 Bob Geldof\u2019s cash, lunch with the Business Post, the Shelbourne re-jig and meet Julie Jargon RTE presenter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2046,6130,7517,93,61,60,5243,4856,6133,6131,6085,6129],"class_list":{"0":"post-6778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bob-geldof","9":"tag-claire-byrne","10":"tag-denis-obrien","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-john-burns","15":"tag-mcdonalds","16":"tag-newstalk","17":"tag-pat-kenny","18":"tag-rte","19":"tag-rte-radio-1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","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=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}