{"id":207666,"date":"2025-11-30T07:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/207666\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T07:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:30:14","slug":"late-late-toy-show-host-patrick-kielty-on-fronting-rtes-biggest-show-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/207666\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Late Toy Show host Patrick Kielty on fronting RT\u00c9&#8217;s biggest show of the year"},"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\">Despite having had a trying year, the host is in chipper mood\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patrick Kielty has seen satire become something of a dirty word over the course of his comedy career. Photo: Evan Doherty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SF SINDO.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)\">Patrick Kielty has seen satire become something of a dirty word over the course of his comedy career. Photo: Evan Doherty<\/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)\">When Patrick Kielty was growing up, he played Gaelic football as a goalkeeper. It was a position, he says, that could swing \u201cfrom zero to hero\u201d and back again.<\/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)\">\u201cIf a goalkeeper saves the ball, it\u2019s like \u2018Oh my god!\u2019 He might have just won the match. If a goalkeeper drops the ball, it\u2019s the goalkeeper who has completely lost it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite having had a trying year, the host is in chipper mood Patrick Kielty has seen satire become&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[16838,356,18,117,19,17,4066,5765,3409,23942,113888,2513,29624,1181,30168,128,19645],"class_list":{"0":"post-207666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-christmas","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-kneecap","15":"tag-micheal-martin","16":"tag-patrick-kielty","17":"tag-people-culture-magazine","18":"tag-phil-healy","19":"tag-pope-francis","20":"tag-queens-university","21":"tag-rte","22":"tag-the-late-late-show","23":"tag-tv","24":"tag-uda"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115637480927760595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207666","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=207666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}