{"id":519236,"date":"2026-06-05T01:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T01:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/519236\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T01:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T01:35:13","slug":"rte-remove-pride-book-link-over-age-appropriateness-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/519236\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 remove Pride book link over “age appropriateness” concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT\u00c9 has removed a link from its website to a Pride-themed reading guide produced by Children\u2019s Books Ireland, confirming that the decision was made for \u201cage appropriateness\u201d reasons.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a report published on Thursday evening, RT\u00c9 said the change was made after a link on its RT\u00c9 KIDS Book Club page directed readers to a Children\u2019s Books Ireland resource containing more than 100 LGBTQ+ themed book recommendations for young people aged between 0 and 18.<\/p>\n

The broadcaster said the RT\u00c9 KIDS Book Club article itself, which was authored by Children\u2019s Books Ireland and aimed at children aged between two and 12, remains online and continues to feature six book recommendations suitable for that age group.<\/p>\n

RT\u00c9 said the article had been edited after publication to remove a link at the end directing readers to the Children\u2019s Books Ireland website, where the organisation\u2019s \u201cRead with Pride Guide\u201d is hosted.<\/p>\n

Explaining the decision, the broadcaster said the link was removed to ensure \u201cthe age appropriateness of resources for the RT\u00c9 KIDS audience profile of up to 12 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n

RT\u00c9 also stressed that it had not featured the controversial book \u201cWhat\u2019s the T?\u201d by transgender author Juno Dawson, which appears on the wider Children\u2019s Books Ireland reading list and is recommended for readers aged 15 and over.<\/p>\n

That book features advice on how to engage in anal sex, including the use of lubricant and cleaning one\u2019s backside before the act; the use of sex toys; foot fetishes, and more, despite the guide explicitly aiming it at 15-year-olds.<\/p>\n

The development comes amid controversy surrounding the book in recent days.<\/p>\n

Children\u2019s Minister Norma Foley told Gript on Wednesday that she was not familiar with \u201cWhat\u2019s the T?\u201d when asked about it by Gript, despite the fact that Gript had sent the material to her office and the Department of Children press office hours before the press conference, explicitly stating that the issue would be asked about.<\/p>\n

In the now-viral online clip, Foley also said she believed parental supervision was important when it came to children\u2019s reading material, but refused to condemn the book being included in a children\u2019s reading list outright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 has removed a link from its website to a Pride-themed reading guide produced by Children\u2019s Books Ireland,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[4391,9,10,53043,2597,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,4172,7,8],"class_list":["post-519236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ben-scallan","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-curriculum","tag-education","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-schools","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519236","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=519236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}