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<\/p>\nThis comes after the Irish Independent revealed on Saturday that Yates had been secretly working as an advisor to Fianna F\u00e1il\u2019s failed presidential candidate, Jim Gavin.<\/p>\n
Yates worked for Newstalk, and appeared on the popular Path to Power podcast during the election campaign. Both Matt Cooper and NK Management \u2013 who own Path to Power podcast \u2013 said he did not disclose his advisory role and immediately ended his association with the show as a consequence.<\/p>\n
Now, Newstalk have said that Yates worked for them as a presenter on Newstalk for three days during the presidential campaign on September, 23, 24, and 25, from 9am-12pm, covering for Pat Kenny.<\/p>\n
“Ivan Yates did not inform Newstalk of any conflict of interest relating to the presidential election campaign. This matter is currently under review by Newstalk management,\u201d a statement from the broadcaster said.<\/p>\n
Ivan Yates has wished the \u2018Path to Power\u2019 podcast every continued success in a LinkedIn post earlier today, sharing a clip of what he described as his \u2018last episode.\u2019<\/p>\n
It was reported by the Irish Independent on Saturday that Yates, the former co-host of the podcast, provided training to the presidential candidate drop-out, Jim Gavin.<\/p>\n
Mr Yates participated in, and contributed to many high-profile conversations around the time of the presidential election, while working with Mr Gavin on his campaign and not disclosing it to the public or companies he worked for.<\/p>\n
After the Irish Independent revelation, it was announced that Yates would no longer be part of Cooper\u2019s podcast.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing disclosures in the Irish Independent (Saturday) that Ivan Yates provided training services to Fianna Fail candidate, Jim Gavin, during the recent Presidential election, we have taken the decision to end Ivan\u2019s role as co-host of Path To Power with immediate effect,\u201d a statement from Cooper and NK Management read.<\/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.<\/p>\n
\u201cIvan recently advised the Path To Power team of his wish to leave the podcast in the New Year. Nevertheless, the team have taken the decision that in light of this development, his role as a co-host will end immediately\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
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Ivan Yates has been axed as co-host of podcast ‘Path to Power.’ Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n
Today’s News in 90 Seconds – Sunday November 2 <\/p>\n
Matt Cooper, the co-host of \u2018Path to Power\u2019 spoke exclusively to the Sunday Independent, and shared his shock and dismay at what must now happen due to Mr Yates\u2019 concealed involvement with the presidential campaign of the Fianna F\u00e1il candidate. <\/p>\n
\u201cI am rarely shocked but I was shocked. And then I suppose I was angry and now I\u2019m sad because I very much enjoyed working with Ivan,\u201d Mr Cooper said, who admitted that going back into studio with wasn\u2019t an option when he felt that he \u201chadn\u2019t been correctly informed,\u201d on something so fundamental to their work. <\/p>\n
He said on Saturday that: \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. Had 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<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Yates said on social media that he wished Path to Power \u201cevery continued success\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking on RT\u00c9 Radio One this morning, Minister Colm Brophy said that this information \u201craises serious questions for Fianna F\u00e1il,\u201d who are already in what would appear to be a precarious position regarding the lack of satisfaction shown by some party members towards their leader, Miche\u00e1l Martin. <\/p>\n
Mr Brophy suggested that the \u201cregulations around fairness and impartiality that affect broadcasters,\u201d were breached by Mr Yates, if he was \u201ccommercially involved in a campaign but not declaring that to the broadcasters who they were coming on to contribute to, or work with.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This comes after the Irish Independent revealed on Saturday that Yates had been secretly working as an advisor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,4771,553,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,59,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-159285","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-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-presidential-election","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115481857683189450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159285","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=159285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}