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High drama and high ratings for The Traitors Ireland
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The Traitors Ireland has finished its first run on RTÉ with strong audiences on television and RTÉ Player.
Across the 12 episodes, the series pulled in an average of 557,000 live and viewed on the same day as live (VOSDAL) viewers, with a 50% share of viewing.
On RTÉ Player, it has been streamed 3.7 million times.
Catch-up audiences on linear added even more to those figures. For the first nine episodes, consolidated ratings rose by an average of 140,000 viewers per episode.
Hosted by Siobhán McSweeney and filmed at Slane Castle, the series saw a group of strangers compete in missions to build a prize fund while trying to identify the Traitors among them. Each night at the round table, the group voted to banish one of their own, as the Traitors plotted in secret.
The final brought the weeks of strategy and suspense to a climax, with the last Faithfuls and Traitors battling it out for the prize. Viewers were kept gripped by dramatic breakfast reveals, fierce round table showdowns and elaborate castle-set missions that tested the players’ nerve.
With the first series proving a ratings and social media hit, attention now turns to the future of the Irish version of the format, which originated in the Netherlands and has since spawned successful editions in the UK, US and Australia.
An RTÉ spokesperson said: “We are delighted with how Irish audiences have reacted to The Traitors Ireland Series 1. Discussions regarding the commissioning of Series 2 will begin in due course.”
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Kate O’Connor is back in Ireland following her historic silver medal at the World Athletics Championship in Tokyo.
Ms O’Connor was greeted by family and friends as she arrived in Dublin Airport.
The 24-year-old had initially planned to stay in Japan for another few weeks, but decided to cut her trip short to return home and recover from a knee injury she sustained while competing in the long jump.
She is the first Irish women to win a medal at a major championship in a multi-discipline event.
She is the sixth World medallist for Ireland, following Eamonn Coghlan (gold, 1500m, 1983), Sonia O’Sullivan (gold, 5000m, 1995 and silver, 1500m, 1993), Gillian O’Sullivan (silver, 20km walk, 2003), Olive Loughnane (silver, 20km walk, 2009) and Rob Heffernan (gold, 50km walk, 2013).
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One person has been killed and two wounded in a shooting at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Texas, US police said, adding that the suspected shooter has also died.
Police responded to reports of the shooting at the office in northwest Dallas at about 7:30am local time (1:30pm Irish time), local media reported.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in an X post that there were multiple injuries and fatalities.
The field office is where people are processed and where agents decide whether to release individuals or hold them, according to ICE.
Those who died were being led into the building to be processed and repatriated, Fox News reported, citing Dallas police Department sources.
Footage from local news showed a large police presence around the facility following the incident.
In a reply to the Department of Homeland Security Secretary’s post on X, US Vice President JD Vance said: “The obsessive attack on law enforcement, particularly ICE, must stop.
“I’m praying for everyone hurt in this attack and for their families.”
The shooter was found dead on the roof of a nearby building, local ABC affiliate WFAA reported, citing sources.
“Preliminary information is a possible sniper,” ICE acting Director Todd Lyons told CNN.
Some media accounts said at least some of the victims are in critical condition.
Dallas police responded to Reuters inquiries and a spokesperson said: “This is an active scene and information is limited.”
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The mothers of two dying teens were stopped by police from seeing their sons’ bodies before violence erupted, a trial has been told.
Eight people have gone on trial accused of rioting which caused “mayhem” and “carnage” in Ely, Cardiff, two years ago.
Newport Crown Court heard there was 200 hours of police body-worn footage from the riot sparked by the deaths of two teenagers, Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, who were killed when their e-bike crashed on Snowden Road on 22 May 2023.
A police officer told jurors the footage included the two boys’ mothers being told they would not be able to see their bodies.
Fiona Haggerty-James from South Wales Police, the officer who put together much of the material, made the admission during cross-examination by one of the defendant’s lawyers.
Prosecutors described one of the defendants Lee Robinson from Caerau, Cardiff, as an “aggressive focal point” of the riot.
In police body-worn footage, Mr Robinson can be seen wearing a grey Chicago Bulls vest and repeatedly calling police officers “murderers” as well claiming “you kill dogs, you kill kids”.
In a text exchange found on Mr Robinson’s phone from the following day, he appears to tell a friend “we flipped the car and blew them up”.
Under cross examination Ms Haggerty-James accepted Robinson appeared to be focused on one of the police dog handlers and was not directing abuse at any other officers.
Harry Baker, defending Mr Robinson, also played another video from later in the evening where his client spoke “pleasantly” to an officer and asked why it was not in the prosecution’s material.
Ms Haggerty-James said the material had been compiled to “capture their offending behaviour”.
On Tuesday, the jury was told that all eight defendants “played a part in the rioting mob”.
Lee Robinson, 38, from Caerau, McKenzie Danks, 22, from Caerau, Michalea Gonzalez, 37, from Ely, Zayne Farrugia, 25, from Caerau, Jordan Bratcher, 27, from Llanishen, Jaydan Baston, 21, from Caerau, Connor O’Sullivan, 26, from Ely and Luke Williams, 31, from Caerau, deny the charge of riot.
The trial is expected to last six weeks.
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