{"id":157359,"date":"2025-11-01T16:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/157359\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:07:08","slug":"ivan-yatess-role-on-path-to-power-podcast-ends-following-presidential-campaign-revelations-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/157359\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Yates\u2019s role on Path to Power podcast ends following presidential campaign revelations \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ivan Yates<\/a>\u2019s role as a co-presenter of the popular Path to Power podcast with Today FM<\/a> broadcaster Matt Cooper<\/a> has been ended \u201cwith immediate effect\u201d after it emerged he had coached Fianna F\u00e1il<\/a>\u2019s Jim Gavin<\/a> during the recent presidential race<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The former Fine Gael<\/a> minister became a prominent figure in the campaign after he said that Fine Gael \u201cshould smear the bejaysus\u201d out of Independent candidate Catherine Connolly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It emerged in The Irish Independent on Saturday that Mr Yates played a significant role in preparing Mr Gavin for the first presidential TV debate, though he had less to do with the Fianna F\u00e1il candidate\u2019s second debate.<\/p>\n

However, his undeclared involvement with Fianna F\u00e1il caused difficulties for the creators of the Path to Power podcast, Today FM broadcaster Matt Cooper and NK Productions, owned by agent Noel Kelly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Saturday afternoon, the two said they had \u201ctaken the decision to end Ivan\u2019s role as co-host of Path To Power with immediate effect\u201d following the disclosure.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeither Matt Cooper nor NK Productions were aware that Ivan was working on the campaign, and both believe that this information should have been shared with the audience of the podcast when the presidential election was being discussed<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking on Saturday, Mr Cooper said: \u201cWhile we have always been aware of Ivan\u2019s commercial activities, his decision not to advise us that he was actively engaged in the presidential election on behalf of one of the parties is disappointing. <\/p>\n

\u201cHad he shared that information with us, we would have made sure that our audience was aware of the matter when we were discussing the election,\u201d the broadcaster said in a statement, which followed a conversation with Mr Yates on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The former Fine Gael minister\u2019s unwanted \u201cbejaysus\u201d advice to Fine Gael, his former political party, was seized upon by the Connolly campaign, even though he had no role in the Fine Gael campaign.<\/p>\n

However, the Connolly campaign argued that it highlighted the nature of the campaign that Fine Gael itself had run. \u201cIn relation to the politics of fear, I think Ivan Yates did us a favour in articulating what happened,\u201d the president-elect said after the election.<\/p>\n

Mr Yates, it emerged today, had recently advised the Path to Power team that he intended to quit the popular podcast in the new year to pursue other projects. <\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Mr Cooper and NK Productions said they had taken the decision that in light of the disclosure about Mr Yates\u2019s involvement with the Fianna F\u00e1il campaign, his role as a co-host would end immediately.<\/p>\n

Mr Yates has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ivan Yates\u2019s role as a co-presenter of the popular Path to Power podcast with Today FM broadcaster Matt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,4771,553,6,19,17,37856,19487,11,12,15,16,91727,5,91728,59,69406,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-157359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-fianna-fail","14":"tag-fine-gael","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-ivan-yates","19":"tag-jim-gavin","20":"tag-latest-news","21":"tag-latestnews","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-matt-cooper","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-noel-kelly-agent","27":"tag-presidential-election","28":"tag-today-fm","29":"tag-top-stories","30":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115475306463863223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}