{"id":40337,"date":"2025-09-03T07:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40337\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T07:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:13:09","slug":"donal-lynch-can-you-imagine-if-cameras-were-allowed-into-the-conor-mcgregor-civil-case-there-wouldnt-have-been-a-cow-milked-in-clare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40337\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00f3nal Lynch: Can you imagine if cameras were allowed into the Conor McGregor civil case? There wouldn\u2019t have been a cow milked in Clare"},"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\">Vulture<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Conor McGregor arriving at the High Court in Dublin in November. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/467e0137-6f09-42bd-900a-f080d5b4c884.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)\">Conor McGregor arriving at the High Court in Dublin in November. Photo: Collins<\/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)\">The summer is over, the weather has turned, and the autumn TV schedules are upon us. As always they heavily feature foreign TV formats, like the Traitors, that we try our best to put our own Irish spin on. The broadcaster pays a fat fee to the originator, and we, the viewers, get something we\u2019ve probably already seen but now mixed with milk and water, or Moate and Waterford.<\/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)\">The greatest and cheapest foreign format of all is always missing, however. Cameras in the courtroom. There are no Real Housewives, no Love Island hopefuls, no stars dancing who can compare, in terms of drama, to even a single evening of Court TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vulture Conor McGregor arriving at the High Court in Dublin in November. Photo: Collins The summer is over,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[30805,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-40337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-donal-lynch","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40337","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=40337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}