Broadcast it far and wide, Marconi Cottage is for sale on Antrim coast

WHAT’S the betting that former Government minster, now bookmaker and broadcaster, Ivan Yates completes a cross-border radio link, for family and old times sake?

Up for sale near Ballycastle, in north Co Antrim, is Marconi Cottage, a 19th century seaside stunner with a direct link to the great man of wireless, radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi.

Just this past week, the RTÉ programme Who Do You Think You Are? showed that former politician, Ivan Yates, has two strands of family links to Marconi, and the pioneering days of radio. The link is serendipitous, given that Yates is now a Newstalk radio presenter and TV3 commentator, as well as owner of the Celtic Bookmakers chain, with 60 shops in Ireland and Wales that turn over €100m a year.