{"id":285914,"date":"2026-01-15T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/285914\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:50:07","slug":"rte-returns-painting-worth-e60k-to-dublin-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/285914\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 returns painting worth \u20ac60k to Dublin gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RT\u00c9 has confirmed that it has returned a painting worth \u20ac60,000 to a gallery in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>The piece by Gerard Dillon was given to Taylor Galleries on 18 December.<\/p>\n<p>The gallery claimed ownership of the work last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Kitchen Interior with Seated Woman&#8217; had been in the organisation for at least four decades and was displayed in RT\u00c9&#8217;s Company Secretary&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>RT\u00c9 Director General Kevin Backhurst told the Drivetime programme in October last year that the broadcaster was trying to find paperwork to confirm its provenance.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Galleries has been contacted for a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 has confirmed that it has returned a painting worth \u20ac60,000 to a gallery in Dublin. The piece&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-285914","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115899677153525874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285914","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=285914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}