{"id":158396,"date":"2025-11-02T07:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/158396\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T07:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:09:09","slug":"im-shocked-angry-and-sad-i-couldnt-go-back-into-the-studio-with-him-and-have-banter-after-that-matt-cooper-on-the-ivan-yates-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/158396\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m shocked, angry and sad\u2026 I couldn\u2019t go back into the studio with him and have banter after that\u2019: Matt Cooper on the Ivan Yates fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Broadcaster speaks out on axing former Fine Gael minister from their \u2018Path to Power\u2019 podcast due to Gavin presidential election coaching\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matt Cooper and Ivan Yates in 2023. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6f6c7961-25fe-4e13-8f78-7839d70590c1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Matt Cooper and Ivan Yates in 2023. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Broadcaster Matt Cooper has described his emotional reaction to the news that Ivan Yates failed to disclose that he had provided debate preparation for Fianna F\u00e1il presidential candidate Jim Gavin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Independent, after releasing a statement announcing the news that Yates would no longer feature on their Path to Power podcast, Cooper described his feelings upon picking up Saturday\u2019s Irish Independent, which revealed that Yates had been secretly working with Fianna F\u00e1il and Gavin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broadcaster speaks out on axing former Fine Gael minister from their \u2018Path to Power\u2019 podcast due to Gavin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,4771,553,6,555,19,17,19487,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-158396","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-heather-humphreys","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-jim-gavin","20":"tag-latest-news","21":"tag-latestnews","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115478853319616708","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158396","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=158396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}