{"id":188689,"date":"2025-11-19T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/188689\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:10:13","slug":"ivan-yates-to-take-aim-at-podcast-co-host-matt-cooper-at-oireachtas-committee-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/188689\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Yates to take aim at podcast co-host Matt Cooper at Oireachtas committee today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regulator’s queries\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Media watchdog Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n contacted both RT\u00c9 and Newstalk regarding Mr Yates\u2019 appearances on the channels before, during, and after the election.<\/p>\n

At the Oireachtas media committee today, Wednesday, Mr Yates is expected to take a swipe at his former Path to Power co-host and again defend training Mr Gavin.<\/p>\n

\"Presidential<\/a><\/p>\n

In his opening statement, Mr Yates is due to tell the media committee that he is \u201cflabbergasted at the volume of attention which has focused on my media training\u201d.<\/p>\n

He will note that media training is listed on his LinkedIn profile and \u201cmost people know\u201d he was a TD, adding that \u201cit hardly requires an enormous leap of imagination to think that I might have combined these interests at some point\u201d.<\/p>\n

Podcasts ‘less cautious, more contrarian’<\/p>\n

\u201cPodcasts hold a very important space in the media ecosystem, and a major part of their attraction is that they take a looser, less cautious, more contrarian approach to issues and allow voices to be heard that are increasingly hard to hear in the so-called mainstream media,\u201d Mr Yates will say.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the case of Path to Power, I don\u2019t think that anybody was tuning in to hear two versions of Matt Cooper.<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer ‘Path to Power’ co-hosts Matt Cooper and Ivan Yates. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe contrast between the styles and approaches of Matt on the one hand and myself on the other was a major attraction for listeners or viewers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI approached issues from a very different perspective \u2014 with deep political experience and connections and with relationships across the parties and with a real-world experience of both the economy and politics. This was part of the attraction.<\/p>\n

Disclimers are ‘a mood killer’<\/p>\n

\u201cA guaranteed mood-killer in that environment would have been if we had been forced to preface every debate with a disclaimer or a declaration of interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Yates will tell the committee that Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n is examining the matter, and it is not their function to \u201crun a parallel investigation\u201d.<\/p>\n

He will add: \u201cI believe my predictions\/punditry during elections were based solely on being as accurate and informative as possible. I don\u2019t believe any training role altered the way I saw the election unfolding or the performance of the various candidates.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He will warn against creating a register of interests as part of the broadcasting bill, arguing that \u201cinstead of controlling \u2018hate speech\u2019, we could limit \u2018free speech\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality is that people who express strong opinions on topics such as migration, Trump, the ‘woke’ agenda, and the nanny state don\u2019t conform to a mainstream media consensus. A sanitised \u2018politically correct\u2019 media limits the national conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regulator’s queries\u00a0\u00a0 Media watchdog Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n contacted both RT\u00c9 and Newstalk regarding Mr Yates\u2019 appearances on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,1109,5,59,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-188689","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-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-media","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-presidential-election","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115575588676333876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188689","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=188689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}