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RTÉ IS TO air its own version of Traitors, a reality game show where strangers complete challenges and vote against each other in hopes of winning a cash prize.
The show was a hit in the UK, US and the Netherlands and now RTÉ is looking for Irish contestants who are willing to move into a remote castle next spring and be filmed as they try to weed out the “Traitors” among them.
Each day, the contestants will embark on missions that seek to add more money to the prize pot of up to €50,000.
Only the ones who survive until the end will have the chance to win the cash, and if a Traitor remains undetected, they’ll steal all the money.
Grainne McAleer, a commissioning editor at RTÉ, said it’s an “ambitious and entertaining” format that promises to make for “compulsive viewing”.
“If you think you can outsmart and out-schmooze, this could well be for you.”
Those wishing to participate must be over 18 and available in Spring 2025.
Darren Smith, MD Kite Entertainment, which will produce the show for RTÉ said: “We’ll do our best not to let them, and most importantly Irish viewers, down.
“Now, we’re off to get ourselves a beautiful castle, a great cast, some cloaks and a brilliant host!”
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Dear Regina, thanks to your party ever man woman and child owes €42,000 per person. And your worried about cycle lanes. You destroyed our nation left us with over 300k of our children to emigrate.We have a third world health system, and you have created an economy where to survive in Dublin a young couple must have a combined income of 120k to get a basic home. We are not progressing as a nation.50 years ago a man could be a post man buy a house raise 4 kids bring them on holiday. Put them through college and pay his mortgage.
@Jimmy Donovan: the nation is doing great. Economy high performing. Progressive tax system that redistributes wealth.
@Jimmy Donovan: Where did you pull that 300k number from? I can guess. The CSO statistics suggest as many people are returning home as emigrating each year and it’s been like that for a good while.
@Jimmy Donovan: hate to be the one to point out, it wasn’t Fianna Gael who implemented the bank guarantee and loaded the gamblings of a few on the population.
@Argus Romsworth: I haven’t seen this wealth in my pocket that you speak of.
@Dave Barrett: the framework is there nationwide for you to put that extra money in your pocket. It’s up to you to take advantage of it.
@Argus Romsworth: Go read the OECD reports on wages, real wages are down over 5% since 2019, our GDP growth is slower than inflation, low paid workers haven’t had such low purchasing for their wages since the 80′s. Interest rates are still extremely high. Our GDP growth will be very sluggish and then it will begin to shrink because we can’t house workers. This is basic economics, how can be people say we are doing great when our fundamentals are so bad. You go and read what actual economists have to say about our economy. We are in desperate shape for the future and low income workers haven’t been this poor in decades. A third of two parent working families with 2-5 children would be homeless without the government giving subsidies to employers and landlords. Be realistic We are not in good position.
@Mick Duvanny: is he wrong on other statements, doesn’t really matter if it’s 100 k or 300 k.
The point is why they are leaving. As a teen I could work and live and save on my little job, now 2 people working can’t seem to get on their feet.
@Argus Romsworth: where is this redistribution of wealth going???
Seemly, middle class are on their knees, the working poor don’t even factor, they will never own anything again.
So where is the wealth, when companies are making billions in profits, where is this going.
@Argus Romsworth: SOME ARE “DOING GREAT”, MORE ARE LIVING IN MISERY—-AS IS ALWAYS THE WAY WHEN MONEYGRUBBING ME-FEINERS GET THEIR MITTS ON THE TILLER.
@Jim O’Sullivan: What are you on about? FFG have been in control since 1937 ffs, I refused to vote for SF too but what other choice is there? We’re screwed as a nation, this crowd has created Ireland .Inc and destroyed the cultural fabric the people had, sure there are always the people capable enough to hold a tax paying job but are too blinded to see the shadow masters in the cave, the ‘I’m alright Jack’ types, sitting there mesmerized by the shadow theater that is their faux life’s.
@Argus Romsworth: the wealthy are doing great. everyone else is living week to week if they are doing ok. As for progressive tax the ordinary worker pays their share, the rich, the multi nationals dont, therefore it is not redistributed
@Argus Romsworth: You mean penalizes those who get up out of bed every day & go to work to pay for the ever increasing scroungers, native & imported, working people have had enough & the lid will blow off the pot very very soon.
Cycle lanes are destroying towns and cities look at Ashbourne or Navan for example, buses can barely pass each other as traffic lanes are now too narrow..meanwhile the cycle lanes are, in general, empty.
Time to roll back on this madness.
@NotGreta: if the cycle lane is empty…USE IT!
@NotGreta: yes Ashbourne Is a mess 3 years of road works to make it a more greener environmental friendly town 3 years of ripping up roads of traffic congestion of bus services cancelling of narrowing roads that traffic lanes are narrower .they are still causing havoc in ashbourne and for what .for bike lanes there’s no parking on streets there’d not enough secondary schools the public transport is rubish.
@Alan Kelly: So people are meant to cycle from Navan to Dublin? What about people with disabilities who can’t negotiate a bike, blind people for instance? They can’t just use a cycle lane.
@Alan Kelly: Pity the same can’t be said for empty heads like yours
@Alan Kelly: omg you totally missing the whole point
@Fiona Wyse: yeah like we can’t just hop on the luas or walk to where we need to get to .if I need or family needs to get to diblin city have to drive to Ashbourne and park and hope the bus will turn up . We are so behind the times with public transport it was better 100 years ago in uk Europe you could get around so easy . Not now
@Fiona Wyse: if driving from Navan to Dublin use the M2 Motorway!
Shameful stuff from Doherty here. Most cyclists aren’t the peleton types who take off for 4 or 5 hours blocking up roads in their lycra. They are people looking to navigate urban areas in a green, healthy and time efficient way. The roads are not safe for cyclists without cycle lanes.
I live in Berlin, comparing cycling infrastructure to the Berlin Wall is reductive and insulting to a city that actually has quite decent cycling infrastructure.
Authoritarian? You’d swear the greens are the majority partner in this government, of which her party is a member. Doubling down on an own goal, probably not the best strategy.
@David Healion: It’s just a cheap attempt to win the populist vote
@David Healion: ‘blocking up roads in their lycra’. LOL.
@David Healion:
“Doubling down on an own goal, probably not the best strategy”
Are you sure about that? She got elected, the greens lost their seats.
@David Healion: come visit ashbourne town see the carniage all for bike lanes
@Karen Marten: Ok “Karen”
@UK Hurling Bloke: offs grow up kEVIN
I pay the Journal a €5 each month & yet comments are closed on the majority of news stories that I would look to comment on.
@Osprey: what benefits do you get for a fiver?
@Osprey: sucker
@Osprey: Tell them you will withdraw your fiver until they cop on.
If enough did it, they just might.
@Dere: you may be right tbh
Only thing she got wrong was the Berlun Wall was completed faster. That C2CC route is a disgrace and I say that as someone who used to bike into work. They’ve made areas of Fairview so dangerous that I get the DART in at the moment.
@Mark Anthony Savage: Let’s not even mention the sh!tshow the Quays are.
The mind boggles that this failed business woman (went bust owing a six figure sum), failed national politician (was so poor as a senior politician that she was voted out by her constituency), we give out about the quality of our politicians but they exactly reflect the qualities of the people who vote for them.
@Eddie Garvey: Eddie Regina is now a passanger on the Bisto train thanks to the people
A general election is comming watch the ffg entitled chancers tear lumps out of everyone and everything
I heard her in a “discussion” on the radio over the weekend. She shouted down the other panelists and the presenter. Now she dubs bike lanes authoritarian! The words pot, kettle and black spring to mind.
Bikes are authoritarian now. Ok.
@Alex: reading it doesn’t exactly enlighten. It’s the usual half brained commentary
700k cars off the roads due to influx of bike lanes?? What an utter nonsense!
Bike lanes are consistently parked in?
If I cycle and see a car parked on a cycle lane, and I politely tell the driver (if (s)he is in the car) they should not park there, they show me two fingers. The drivers are a direct cause why casual cyclists give up on cycling.
Why don’t we just enlarge the sewage tunnels, and put the bike lanes down there, with regular access points to the surface for them? They won’t have to worry about cars blocking them then.
Unless the driver is seriously determined / demented.
@Benny Colreavy: Maybe put you and your car in the tunnel and flush you out to the sea.
@Sal Paradise: So you’re wishing I would drown.
And cyclists wonder why the only thing pedestrians and drivers seem to agree on is their mutual hatred of two wheeled menaces?
And no, I don’t drive.
Who votes for amadáin like this woman? Cycle lanes literally divide the road so there’s a safe space for cyclists because a lot of motorists can’t be trusted to obey the law. All they do is keep people safe, is that part of your remit as a politician? It’s not all about fancy dinners, massive wages and state funded chauffeurs, Regina
@Jonny Hellzapoppin: electric scooters still zooming around on the roads even with cycle lanes available why because they can’t speed on them. And who is going to stop them. No one .
Clumsy once, clumsy twice.
Authoritarian?
Am I the only one that believes Israel is a terrorist state and needs a change
@Robert Halvey: mean while cycle lanes are topic of conversation, also they shouted down pbp in dail chamber, saying they were scare mongering about Palestine.
And then we find out many fg are friends of Isreal, no wonder they didn’t expel ambassador.
The looney left are not so crazy after all.
@Colette Byrne: FG are born out of full blown fascism, haven’t strayed away to far from fascism and unto fascism they will gloriously return some time soon. It’s not a surprise that they have a soft spot for the genocidal regime in Tel Aviv. They don’t care how many innocents die. Regina’s almost sexual excitement at the thoughts of UvdL retaining power tells many stories, none of them easy on the ear
@Robert Halvey: hamas are the terrorist if they didn’t hide among the civilian population causing so many deaths, the hamas lead govt never seperate civilian from hamas terrorists they just lump them all together, as long as middle east terrorist groups use civilian people and structures as cover there will always civilian victims.
@Peter Donnelly: This old nonsense. Were there Hamas militants hiding in UN buildings? The UN says there was not. Didn’t stop the Israelis bombing it to dust. Or in that truck that belonged to a UN charity? No, just charity workers. Or the shooting of children on the street? We’re Hamas militants hiding in the children’s clothing? Please stop excusing war crimes. The ICC have found against Israel in this regard. Who are you to dispute their findings?
“Doherty said she could not understand why Fianna Fáil’s MEPs would vote against their party leader, Tánaiste Micheál Martin, their European group, Renew, and put their party’s proposed commissioner Michael McGrath at risk not getting his desired portfolio”
Your record over the period you attached yourself to the government explains cl; clearly why you cannot understand why a politician would keep an election promise..
The point of departure for environmental concerns should take two parallel tracks into the future. There is utility until cleaner innovations to large-scale transport are found, and then there is the enormous task of undoing the damage created by experimental theorists to society.
Politicians have a large hand in dealing with the former, but the latter is entirely an issue for society and the electorate to remove the taxpayer-funded hysteria generated by the modelling community and replace the hysteria with genuine climate research with its multiple research areas.
People are not slaves to a subculture; it is time to stop acting that way. Bicycle lanes are far removed from the actual issues at the centre of the academic/political vehicle of mathematical modelling and human control.
Me think she not thmart
Just like those Authoritarian pylons, rememver how Regina stated that she would start civil disobedience to stop them, and yet called anyone a criminal who protested against water charges. Not the first or last time that this morally bankrupt individual will talk nonsense and yet she was elected an an MEP, shocking. Climate Change is a con job will be her next article. Or maybe she can enlighten us as to why her government said that we pay what we owe and yet she didn’t pay what she owed, that’s why people have a problem with the likes of her, paying for the gambles of the rich, like her to recapitalise not only Irish banks but European and American banks. Remember America’s threat to the Republic on the day Obama visited Dublin.
People should not whinge when many of them have elected this Cee U Next Tuesday yet again.
don’t add. Just take away. Lazy policy
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