{"id":35717,"date":"2025-09-01T03:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35717\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T03:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:07:07","slug":"donegal-woman-kelley-chosen-as-contestant-on-rte-show-the-traitors-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35717\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal woman Kelley chosen as contestant on RT\u00c9 show The Traitors Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A young Letterkenny woman has been chosen to compete for the \u20ac50,000 on offer as she stars in RT\u00c9\u2019s The Traitors Ireland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Filmed in Slane Castle, the show is one of the most anticipated on Irish television screens.<\/p>\n<p>Donegal television viewers were delighted to see one of their own compete for the prizemoney when business graduate Kelley Higgins appeared on the show.<\/p>\n<p>Kelley is one of 24 players from across the country to compete in the show.<\/p>\n<p>Three \u2018traitors\u2019 were chosen by host Siobh\u00e1n McSweeney during tonight\u2019s show.<\/p>\n<p>Kelley, the daughter of well-known local couple Brian and Denise Higgins, was not chosen as a traitor but is one of the\u2019faithful.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The secret Traitors, are chosen to deceive, manipulate and eliminate their rivals in the battle for up to \u20ac50,000. <\/p>\n<p>The rest, the Faithful, must work together to expose the saboteurs before it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>McSweeney, best known for Derry Girls, presides over the action as suspicion, paranoia and dramatic twists take hold.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to RT\u00c9 McSweeney said: \u201cIt\u2019s really nerve-racking. And Slane Castle lends the game a sense of history and drama that raises the stakes in every moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The series will air across three nights each week, Sunday to Tuesday, and is followed by companion show The Traitors Ireland: Uncloaked, hosted by Kevin McGahern, with behind-the-scenes insight and exclusive clips.<\/p>\n<p>You can see how Kelley gets on when she appears again on the show on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Donegal woman Kelley chosen as contestant on RT\u00c9 show The Traitors Ireland was last modified:  August 31st, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young Letterkenny woman has been chosen to compete for the \u20ac50,000 on offer as she stars in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[6368,18,117,19,17,27744,11165,1181,18977,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-35717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-donegal","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-kelley-higgins","14":"tag-letterkenny","15":"tag-rte","16":"tag-the-traitors-ireland","17":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35717","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=35717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}