By Danny de Vaal

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The Faithful got back to winning ways when they banished a fourth traitor on The Traitors Ireland on Tuesday evening.

Retired prison officer, Paudie, was sensationally banished from the castle following a tense roundtable.

Before announcing he was a traitor, Paudie said: “I’m on my way home to my wife, my four beautiful children, my nine grandchildren, I’m looking forward to seeing them all. I really am

“You mightn’t know my family but you met one of them. My son Andrew.”

Before adding: “And I am a Traitor.”

Sole remaining Traitor Nick was then forced to pick which remaining faithfuls he wanted to blackmail. They will accept and become a traitor or be murdered.

Meanwhile, contestant Andrew Moloney jokes he still calls his father “Paudie” to this day after mistakenly calling him “daddy” in one of the early episodes.

The duo kept their relationship a secret during their time in the castle but the slip-up could have spelled disaster had any of the other candidates heard it.

The Limerick man, who is expecting his first child with wife Aisling next month, said he became so switched on to the mishap, he still calls his dad “Paudie” despite the fact filming has wrapped.

Both son and father only discovered they were on the show when they both lined up outside Slane Castle on the first day.

Speaking to The Irish Mirror as part of a roundtable with the media, Andrew said: “When I first saw him, I suppose I was thinking ‘I have someone in here, that I can trust and who is an ally’

“I suppose then you’re kind of thinking ‘I don’t know if he wants people to know what the relationship is.

“If he kind of comes up to me and has a big hug moment and says ‘Oh son, it’s you’, I didn’t go up to him because I didn’t want to initiate that and kind of give away an advantage.”

But he said the fact his dad was also in the castle did affect his own game.

Andrew, who became a Traitor for a brief period, explained: “I always call him ‘daddy’ when I’m talking to him, I had to straight away just shut that off and had to call him Paudie … so I had to treat him like any other player.

“That was quite difficult when you have that advantage – just because that bias comes back up that he’s my dad.”

When asked about the self-control needed to not call him “daddy” and the moment he slipped up, Andrew added: “It was really hard … even now that I’ve left and I’m still calling him Paudie.

“It happened in the heat of a moment of a challenge when things weren’t going our way and that compartmentalisation just disappeared.”

Fellow contestant Mark White, who was revealed as being “murdered” on Monday’s episode, heartbreakingly revealed he decided to take part in the show after two pals died.

The Laois man said: “When I applied it was just one of those things, I’d four or five months before I applied two of my friends passed away in a short period of time.

“And I was just like ‘do you know what, I’m not going to say no to anything here’”.

Mark wears a cochlear implant for hearing loss and lets slip he could lip read as a result.

The Traitors ultimately saw this as a dangerous trait and decided to kill him off.

When asked if he believed his hearing disability allowed him to pick up on more subtle cues from contestants, Mark explained: “I’ve spent all my life watching television with subtitles.

“If there’s no subtitles on it, I’m not watching it. So I’m reading subtitles and looking at people talking … basically I know when people are lying.”

He added: “The lip reading didn’t help me at all, I didn’t catch anybody out on the lip reading situation but I did catch Eamon with a body language shift.”

Some of Mark’s initial hunches ultimately proved to be correct but joked he didn’t have a “cheat code”.

Mark continued: “A few people think the FBI are going to be calling me shortly to give me a job, if they want to, I don’t mind.”

Meanwhile, Mayo man and former Casino boss Patrick Hughes who was also booted out on Monday, said he believes Paudie’s success on the show was primarily down to his career as a prison guard.

He explained: “In his background as a prison officer, he thrived, he lived 30 years I think it was in a chaotic environment like this and instantly I thought he would be brilliant in this environment.

“And now looking at him through the lens of the episodes you can see that he’s sitting back and saying nothing, he’s hiding in plain sight and realistically Mark and I and others should have gotten together and said ‘let’s just get rid of him right away because he’s the biggest threat.

“I do think it’s those cute strategies that have kept him in the game so long.”

Patrick described the experience as “the most stressful thing I’ve ever done in my life”.

He also praised fellow contestant Oyin Adeyemi and said if anything is to be learned it’s to “listen”.

Patrick explained: “It really really reminded me of the power of listening because that’s what she does because you learn nothing when you’re talking.”

This prompted Mark to quip: “Patrick, I’m trying my best to listen. Jeez, give me a break”

Each contestant also praised the public and said the support they’ve received has been amazing.

In Monday night’s episode, during the breakfast debrief, the remaining contestants were left in shock after it emerged a Traitor had been recruited after initial speculation Logistics Specialist Joanna had been killed.

Host Sioban then explained that while nobody was murdered, the Traitors placed an old Irish curse called a “piseógs” on a contestant and they were now dying slowly.

This led all the contestants to go over events with a fine-tooth comb in a bid to try and decipher whether nothing or something untoward had happened.

During the mission, Faye, Ben and Christine were placed into coffins and the contestants had to guess which one was cursed by placing a flower inside it.

Ben received the most flowers but the contestants were wrong. Host Siobhan revealed it was actually Christine who had a curse placed on her.

Her coffin was ultimately closed and she was eliminated before a black rose was placed on top.

The Traitors Ireland continues every Sunday, Monday and Tuesday at 9:30pm