{"id":493095,"date":"2026-05-19T22:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/493095\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:09:12","slug":"rte-chief-defends-extra-payments-to-patrick-kielty-and-says-hed-love-to-keep-him-at-late-late-show-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/493095\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 chief defends extra payments to Patrick Kielty and says he'd 'love' to keep him at Late Late Show – The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. RT\u00c9 chief defends extra payments to Patrick Kielty and says he’d ‘love’ to keep him at Late Late Show<\/a>  The Journal<\/li>\n
  2. RT\u00c9 DG defends extra payments to Patrick Kielty, would ‘love’ him to continue as Late Late Show host<\/a>  RTE.ie<\/li>\n
  3. Letters to the Editor: To whom it concerns, a Late, Late candidate for the job<\/a>  Irish Independent<\/li>\n
  4. RTE chief defends extra payments to Patrick Kielty<\/a>  Limerick Leader<\/li>\n
  5. As Patrick Kielty gets ready to take over the Late Late Show, stakes are even higher<\/a>  Irish Independent<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 chief defends extra payments to Patrick Kielty and says he’d ‘love’ to keep him at Late Late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,16036,3409,1181,30168],"class_list":["post-493095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kevin-bakhurst","tag-patrick-kielty","tag-rte","tag-the-late-late-show"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116603530039639075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493095","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=493095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}