{"id":160920,"date":"2025-11-03T18:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/160920\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:46:13","slug":"media-watchdog-probes-ivan-yates-work-for-rte-and-newstalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/160920\/","title":{"rendered":"Media watchdog probes Ivan Yates&#8217; work for RT\u00c9 and Newstalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<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\">Fianna F\u00e1il confirms Yates provided four hours of interview and debate training to Jim GavinHousing Minister James Browne confirms he has also received media training from YatesJustice Minister Jim O\u2019Callaghan says \u201cnothing improper\u201d in Fianna F\u00e1il retaining the services of broadcasterCoimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n now wants answers from RT\u00c9 and Newstalk on Yates&#8217;s on-air activities\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ivan Yates has been axed as co-host of podcast 'Path to Power.' Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762195573_440_9688c4ae-8d9e-4bf8-907d-bc03fe401c7b.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)\">Ivan Yates has been axed as co-host of podcast &#8216;Path to Power.&#8217; Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p>Fionn\u00e1n Sheahan, Mary Regan and Deirdre Barry<\/p>\n<p>Today at 17:36<\/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)\">The media watchdog is asking RT\u00c9 and Newstalk for more details on Ivan Yates&#8217; work for the broadcasters.<\/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)\">Mr Yates has been appearing on TV and radio as an independent political commentator, despite working for Fianna F\u00e1il.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 Fianna F\u00e1il confirms Yates provided four hours of interview and debate training to Jim GavinHousing Minister James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160921,"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-160920","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\/115487256431423333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160920","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=160920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}