{"id":184778,"date":"2025-11-17T05:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/184778\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:33:21","slug":"rte-criticised-by-conservationists-for-gutting-of-traditional-homes-in-tv-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/184778\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 criticised by conservationists for \u2018gutting\u2019 of traditional homes in TV shows"},"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\">Presenter Hugh Wallace defends modifications to older homes saying residents would \u2018freeze to death\u2019 without improvements\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Award-winning architect Hugh Wallace who presents 'The Great House Revival'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SN Hugh Wallace (5).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)\">Award-winning architect Hugh Wallace who presents &#8216;The Great House Revival&#8217;<\/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)\">A war of words has erupted between the chief executive of the Dublin Civic Trust and RT\u00c9 presenter Hugh Wallace over TV shows on renovating traditional buildings.<\/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)\">Speaking to the Sunday Independent, Graham Hickey, CEO of the Dublin Civic Trust, hit out at RT\u00c9 shows Heat My Home and The Great House Revival, saying they are \u201csetting us back decades\u201d in how they advise viewers to renovate traditional homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presenter Hugh Wallace defends modifications to older homes saying residents would \u2018freeze to death\u2019 without improvements Award-winning architect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,5364,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-184778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-niamh-horan","13":"tag-rte"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115563410890658385","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}