'The Traitors' episode five review: Eamon's bull finally catches up with him — Irish Examiner
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[Some
strong language]
Oyin,
whose wig just might have psychic powers, cuts through all
the noise: 'Is this a fight among Traitors?' Crown her
President immediately
Traitors
Paudie, Eamon, and Katelyn seal John’s fate at the
start of the episode.
MON,
08 SEP, 2025 - 22:40
ESTHER
N MCCARTHY
The
claws are straight out at breakfast on The
Traitors Ireland on RTÉ One, and Traitor
Katelyn is the main course.
She’s
barely buttered her toast before the others start
circling, muttering about how upset she got with Nick
the night before.
Model
Oyin is keeping it cool, while Patrick explains his
silence at last night’s round table with all the
gravitas of a fella revealing state secrets.
This
guy. It’s like if Fr Stone came to stay in Slane, he’s
painful.
Ben,
meanwhile, tells us to camera: “We’re doing terrible,
but the mood is good.”
It’s
possibly the most Irish pep talk ever.
It’s
Joanne’s birthday and Traitor Eamon is clapping like a
seal that’s been promised extra mackerel, bellowing
the song louder than the rest. Hmm, too much, dude,
calm it down.
The
focus shifts to Katelyn and Paudie. Christine tries to
defend Paudie with a well-meaning but wildly agist:
“Sure, God love him.”
She
can’t see past the little grandpa pot belly and round
neck sweaters. At your peril, Christine.
John,
a 53-year-old firefighter from Cork, is the latest
Faithful to be murdered.
Meanwhile,
Katelyn is sweating buckets when Jo lets slip that
everyone is talking about her. She’s definitely
rattled.
Then
comes the gut punch: Andrew and Vanessa stroll into
breakfast … but John doesn’t. Murdered in the night,
so he was.
Eamon,
to camera, declares it his “favourite murder so far,”
like he’s auditioning for a pantomime villain. Mark my
words, we’ll see that fella in the Gaiety come
Christmas. Oh yes, we will!
John
takes it on the chin, as magnanimous in defeat as you
can be when the game chucks you out twice.
Christine,
true to form, makes it all about the county. “They got
rid of another Cork person,” she fumes.
“I
don’t think that’s a pattern,” says Kelley gently and
sensibly, spoken like a right non-rebel.
Christine
claims the team needed John’s “strength, mindset, and
skills”.
We
all know what she really means: His fireman’s pole.
Easy there, tiger.
Fashion
interlude, hurray!
Siobhán
sweeps in looking like she’s en route to a 1992 rave
at Sir Henry’s.
Remember
when those patterned PJs were all the rage? Amy calls
it an outfit. I call it iconic. Those glasses! Let’s
just canonise her and get it over with, ok?
She
mourns: “Ah, poor Johnny, we hardly knew ya.” She then
scolds the group for scoffing the breakfast spread as
if she’s the one slaving over the sausages.
The
Faithfuls and Traitors trudge out into the rain to
find old-fashioned school desks in the middle of a
field. Siobhán does a roll call of murdered players,
which doesn’t go down too well with the gang
scrunched into the desks in the spitting rain.
Meanwhile,
Eamon’s decided to have a full-on Traitors chat with
Paudie and Katelyn in the hall. He’s convinced he’s
being subtle, but he reminds me of Krusty the Clown
when he’s asked why he voted for Mr Burns’s movie.
“Let’s
just say it moved me .... TO A BIGGER HOUSE. Oops, I
said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet.”
Even
Katelyn is rolling her eyes. “The two of them are as
thick as two bulls in the same field,” she snipes.
The
mission is peak Irish farce. The Faithfuls and
Traitors trudge out into the rain to find
old-fashioned school desks in the middle of a field.
Siobhán does a roll call of murdered players, which
doesn’t go down too well with the gang scrunched into
the desks in the spitting rain.
The
task? Row rafts across a river, answer maths
questions, crack a code, or something.
Is
there nothing to be said for a nice game of Snap in
the cosy castle, lads?
Anyway,
the twist is that the Traitors already know the code.
Chaos
ensues. Faye’s team spins in circles like a Skibbereen
row boat team with only one O’Donovan brother.
Ben’s
team-mates manage to position themselves perfectly
inside it, before realising they have to actually
carry it to the water. Arf.
But
maths proves to be the real assassin: “I’m a fucking
idiot,” Faye admits. “Do we have a brain cell between
us? Absolutely not.”
Oh,
fabulous Faye, you’re definitely one of my favourite
Faithfuls. Never change.
Eamon
is banished from the castle, leaving to the sounds
of the Faithfuls going wild with relief that they
finally caught a Traitor.
Back
at the castle, Paudie goes in for the kill and gets
Eamon squirming. The round table is the best yet, and
not just because Siobhán is dressed like a scout
leader.
Christine
(still rocking her post-river Monica-in-Jamaica hair)
calls out Katelyn. Eamon is scrambling. I must admit
it’s very satisfying to see him under pressure. Oyin,
whose wig just might have psychic powers, cuts through
all the noise: “Is this a fight among Traitors?” Crown
her President immediately.
And
then — oh happy day! Oh glory be! Eamon is voted out.
He launches into a farewell speech worthy of the
Abbey, and the crowd goes wild. Finally, the Faithfuls
actually get one right.
Andrew
almost leaps into Daddy Paudie’s arms before
remembering to play it cool.
The
remaining Traitors, Paudie and Katelyn, must decide:
Murder or recruit? Paudie fancies Nick or Andrew,
Katelyn’s set on Nick. Will he accept? We’ll have to
wait and see.
The
Traitors Ireland airs on Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday at 9.30pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player.
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when will this dreadful program finish on RTÉ TV?
Eleanor
On 9 Sep 2025, at 12:09, Flor Lynch <flor...@iol.ie> wrote:
[Some
strong language]
Oyin,
whose wig just might have psychic powers, cuts through all
the noise: 'Is this a fight among Traitors?' Crown her
President immediately
Traitors
Paudie, Eamon, and Katelyn seal John’s fate at the
start of the episode.
MON,
08 SEP, 2025 - 22:40
ESTHER
N MCCARTHY
The
claws are straight out at breakfast on The
Traitors Ireland on RTÉ One, and Traitor
Katelyn is the main course.
She’s
barely buttered her toast before the others start
circling, muttering about how upset she got with Nick
the night before.
Model
Oyin is keeping it cool, while Patrick explains his
silence at last night’s round table with all the
gravitas of a fella revealing state secrets.
This
guy. It’s like if Fr Stone came to stay in Slane, he’s
painful.
Ben,
meanwhile, tells us to camera: “We’re doing terrible,
but the mood is good.”
It’s
possibly the most Irish pep talk ever.
It’s
Joanne’s birthday and Traitor Eamon is clapping like a
seal that’s been promised extra mackerel, bellowing
the song louder than the rest. Hmm, too much, dude,
calm it down.
The
focus shifts to Katelyn and Paudie. Christine tries to
defend Paudie with a well-meaning but wildly agist:
“Sure, God love him.”
She
can’t see past the little grandpa pot belly and round
neck sweaters. At your peril, Christine.
<John, a 53-year-old firefighter from Cork, is the latest Faithful to be murdered..jpeg>
John,
a 53-year-old firefighter from Cork, is the latest
Faithful to be murdered.
Meanwhile,
Katelyn is sweating buckets when Jo lets slip that
everyone is talking about her. She’s definitely
rattled.
Then
comes the gut punch: Andrew and Vanessa stroll into
breakfast … but John doesn’t. Murdered in the night,
so he was.
Eamon,
to camera, declares it his “favourite murder so far,”
like he’s auditioning for a pantomime villain. Mark my
words, we’ll see that fella in the Gaiety come
Christmas. Oh yes, we will!
John
takes it on the chin, as magnanimous in defeat as you
can be when the game chucks you out twice.
Christine,
true to form, makes it all about the county. “They got
rid of another Cork person,” she fumes.
“I
don’t think that’s a pattern,” says Kelley gently and
sensibly, spoken like a right non-rebel.
Christine
claims the team needed John’s “strength, mindset, and
skills”.
We
all know what she really means: His fireman’s pole.
Easy there, tiger.
Fashion
interlude, hurray!
Siobhán
sweeps in looking like she’s en route to a 1992 rave
at Sir Henry’s.
Remember
when those patterned PJs were all the rage? Amy calls
it an outfit. I call it iconic. Those glasses! Let’s
just canonise her and get it over with, ok?
She
mourns: “Ah, poor Johnny, we hardly knew ya.” She then
scolds the group for scoffing the breakfast spread as
if she’s the one slaving over the sausages.
<The Faithfuls and Traitors trudge out into the rain to find old-fashioned school desks in the middle of a field. Siobhán does a roll call of murdered players, which doesn’t go down too well with the gang scrunched into the desks in the spitting rain..jpeg>
The
Faithfuls and Traitors trudge out into the rain to
find old-fashioned school desks in the middle of a
field. Siobhán does a roll call of murdered players,
which doesn’t go down too well with the gang
scrunched into the desks in the spitting rain.
Meanwhile,
Eamon’s decided to have a full-on Traitors chat with
Paudie and Katelyn in the hall. He’s convinced he’s
being subtle, but he reminds me of Krusty the Clown
when he’s asked why he voted for Mr Burns’s movie.
“Let’s
just say it moved me .... TO A BIGGER HOUSE. Oops, I
said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet.”
Even
Katelyn is rolling her eyes. “The two of them are as
thick as two bulls in the same field,” she snipes.
The
mission is peak Irish farce. The Faithfuls and
Traitors trudge out into the rain to find
old-fashioned school desks in the middle of a field.
Siobhán does a roll call of murdered players, which
doesn’t go down too well with the gang scrunched into
the desks in the spitting rain.
The
task? Row rafts across a river, answer maths
questions, crack a code, or something.
Is
there nothing to be said for a nice game of Snap in
the cosy castle, lads?
Anyway,
the twist is that the Traitors already know the code.
Chaos
ensues. Faye’s team spins in circles like a Skibbereen
row boat team with only one O’Donovan brother.
Ben’s
team-mates manage to position themselves perfectly
inside it, before realising they have to actually
carry it to the water. Arf.
But
maths proves to be the real assassin: “I’m a fucking
idiot,” Faye admits. “Do we have a brain cell between
us? Absolutely not.”
Oh,
fabulous Faye, you’re definitely one of my favourite
Faithfuls. Never change.
<Eamon is banished from the castle, leaving to the sounds of the Faithfuls going wild with relief that they finally caught a Traitor..jpeg>
Eamon
is banished from the castle, leaving to the sounds
of the Faithfuls going wild with relief that they
finally caught a Traitor.
Back
at the castle, Paudie goes in for the kill and gets
Eamon squirming. The round table is the best yet, and
not just because Siobhán is dressed like a scout
leader.
Christine
(still rocking her post-river Monica-in-Jamaica hair)
calls out Katelyn. Eamon is scrambling. I must admit
it’s very satisfying to see him under pressure. Oyin,
whose wig just might have psychic powers, cuts through
all the noise: “Is this a fight among Traitors?” Crown
her President immediately.
And
then — oh happy day! Oh glory be! Eamon is voted out.
He launches into a farewell speech worthy of the
Abbey, and the crowd goes wild. Finally, the Faithfuls
actually get one right.
Andrew
almost leaps into Daddy Paudie’s arms before
remembering to play it cool.
The
remaining Traitors, Paudie and Katelyn, must decide:
Murder or recruit? Paudie fancies Nick or Andrew,
Katelyn’s set on Nick. Will he accept? We’ll have to
wait and see.
The
Traitors Ireland airs on Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday at 9.30pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player.
