Yates urges against €1.6m order

The wife of former minister Ivan Yates is asking the High Court not to give a bank a summary judgment order against her for €1.6m.

The debt arises out of a guarantee Deirdre Yates gave on loans obtained from AIB to her husband for his Celtic Bookmakers business which went into liquidation in 2011.

Mr Yates, a radio broadcaster, was later declared bankrupt in the UK having lived for 16 months in Wales to qualify under its more relaxed bankruptcy laws.