Each time I've tuned in, I’m blown away by how completely impartial the presenters are when discussing politics. Never once would I suspect FFG bias from Ciara Kelly, Anton Savage, Pat Kenny, Shane Coleman, Brenda Power, or Sarah Carey.

by das_punter

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  2. Can he use the Catherine Connolly defence and say he was just doing the jobs he was paid to do?

  3. Shocking close connection…

    Are people really not aware that Ivan Yates was a former FG Minister for Agriculture… 

  4. Ivan Yates the former FG TD has close connections to FFG? You don’t say

  5. Yates isn’t worth platforming, ever. He’s a mouthpiece and has always been

  6. Would this be the same Ivan Yates who encouraged a smear campaign?

  8. Schadenfreude from me on this but you love to see it for Yates, couldn’t happen a bigger bollox.

  9. That’s like something straight out of Waterford Whispers.

  11. Whoever hired Ivan Yates from FF needs sacking, best thing to happen Connolly’s campaign.

    Also, way to debunk the theory FF and FG are two cheeks of the same arse when you can fire a former minister for FG for FFs campaign.

  12. How on earth were Newstalk.’allegedly’ unaware Ivan was a government minister??? Surely he’s openly said it many times on air!

  13. Matt Cooper was doing the hard hitting work on Dunnes Stores and didn’t realise Ivan was being a bold boy. Inspirational.

  16. Moncrieff is one of the few things worth a damn on that station.

  17. Ivan Yates was a former minister for FG, this is hardly earth shattering news. It actually makes him interesting to listen to because he actually does give behind the scenes information which is interesting. It’s unfair to think that he doesn’t come down hard on the government because of his past, it’s actually the opposite at times. And I don’t know why Pat Kenny is being brought into it?

  18. Why is Miriam O’Callaghan never made declare her brother is the Minister for Justice? Yet she continuously interviews FFers?

    Why isn’t John Lee, editor of the Irish Daily Mail made say his wife is a multiple times failed FF election candidate, appointed twice as a senator by FF? Yet he continuously goes on TV as an analyst.

    Hopefully some good comes of this Ivan Yates Saga where transparency is concerned.

  19. Newstalk is the waxed toilet paper of the airwaves. I’ll use it when I’ve run out of more satisfying alternatives, like grass, or nettles.

  23. This is simply the height of stupidity and arrogance. He’s been a mouthpiece for the neoliberal agenda his whole media career. Do they think listeners are morons?

  24. Given how much of a disaster Gavin was in the debates after the debate prep Yates did with him and given how Humphries campaign imploded after Yates advised her to “smear the bejeesus” out of Connolly I suspect we have seen the last of Yates.

    People are more likely to buy jewellery off of Gerard Ratner than seek advice from the Sage of Enniscorthy ever again.

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