{"id":314645,"date":"2026-02-01T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/314645\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T08:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:05:09","slug":"claire-byrne-on-leaving-rte-it-felt-like-the-organisation-was-wagging-its-finger-at-me-saying-youve-been-a-bad-person-you-need-to-have-a-pay-cap-to-stop-your-gallop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/314645\/","title":{"rendered":"Claire Byrne on leaving RT\u00c9: It felt like the organisation was wagging its finger at me, saying \u2018you\u2019ve been a bad person &#8211; you need to have a pay cap to stop your gallop\u2019"},"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\">As her Newstalk d\u00e9but looms, the presenter tells Niamh Horan why she left the state broadcaster, a place she reckons has lost its backbone\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Claire Byrne pictured in the intercontinental Hotel, Dublin. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GM Claire Byrne 006.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)\">Claire Byrne pictured in the intercontinental Hotel, Dublin. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/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)\">Claire Byrne knows the pressure is on. It\u2019s Wednesday afternoon and the broadcaster is enjoying the final days of a three-month break from the airwaves before she makes the move to her new show on Newstalk.<\/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)\">\u201cI need to hit the ground running,\u201d she says as we meet over coffee in Dublin\u2019s Intercontinental Hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As her Newstalk d\u00e9but looms, the presenter tells Niamh Horan why she left the state broadcaster, a place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[23898,18,117,19,17,24321,5364,24320,1181,24556,26666],"class_list":{"0":"post-314645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-claire-byrne","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-newstalk","14":"tag-niamh-horan","15":"tag-pat-kenny","16":"tag-rte","17":"tag-rte-radio-1","18":"tag-ryan-tubridy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115994343761878521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314645","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=314645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}