{"id":40184,"date":"2025-09-03T05:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T05:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40184\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T05:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T05:24:18","slug":"two-of-the-most-interesting-traitors-contestants-have-strong-family-links-to-limerick-gaa-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40184\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Of The Most Interesting Traitors Contestants Have Strong Family Links To Limerick GAA Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning this article contains major spoilers on the Traitors Ireland<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Irish version of The Traitors launched this week, and after two episodes, it’s been a pretty good watch.<\/p>\n

The show has maintained all of the trappings from the UK and Australia editions which have turned it into a global phenomenon, but there are subtle Irish twists, like the challenge using Irish in episode 2.<\/p>\n

For viewers in this country, there is the great Irish curiosity of trying to figure out where you know these people from.<\/p>\n

It turns out three contestants are already pretty well-known outside of the show.<\/a><\/p>\n

It was inevitable that there’d be a character from a GAA background, and it is happens, the closest GAA links to the show come from programme’s two most intriguing characters.<\/p>\n

Viewers learned in episode one that Paudie and Andrew are father and son. Their secret is complicated by the fact that Paudie is a traitor but Andrew is a faithful.<\/p>\n

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It turns out Paudie and Andrew have strong connections to a well-known GAA family in Kilmallock, Co. Limerick.<\/p>\n

Andrew is the uncle to Limerick hurler Shane ‘The Bull’ O’Brien, while Paudie is his grandfather.<\/p>\n

We’re indebted to the work of Kayley Hardiman in the Limerick Leader who revealed on Monday that Andrew’s sister Edwina is married to Shane O’Brien’s father Adrian, who’s also from Kilmallock.<\/a><\/p>\n

Adrian took on the role of Limerick’s head of strength and conditioning heading into the 2025 season<\/a>. He’s also worked with the Clare hurlers, and successful hurling clubs like St Finbarr’s in Cork and Ballyea in Clare.<\/p>\n

Paudie and Andrew in the Traitors: struggling to keep a secret<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Paudie-Andrew dynamic is one of the most interesting tensions after two episodes.<\/p>\n

Andrew accidentally called Paudie ‘Daddy’ during Monday’s episode, which caused plenty of reaction on social media.<\/p>\n

Paudie meanwhile looks visibly uncomfortable any time fellow traitor Eamon suggests banishing his son.<\/p>\n

The retired prison guard has plenty of other fires to fight, as faithful Mark voted against him and accused him of being a traitor to the rest of the group during episode two’s banishment.<\/p>\n

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