Mick Clifford: Ivan Yates plays the victim while stamping on integrity of the media

Really, nobody should be surprised that Ivan Yates doesn’t appear to give a fig about whether his blatant conflict of interest did damage

'Ivan Yates says he can distinguish between his role as training a candidate in an election and commenting on the candidates. He could rely on his own integrity, observe the Chinese walls in his head. This he did on behalf of his listeners and viewers, who were kept in the dark.'

Ivan Yates is opposed to the “woke agenda”. If you find out what exactly this is, please contact me urgently because it sounds like the kind of thing I’d be agin’ myself. Yates referenced this woke agenda at an Oireachtas committee hearing on Wednesday.

He is also, by his own account, somebody who thinks first of others rather than himself, principally when it comes to journalists with whom he worked. In general though, he considers journalists to be entirely untrustworthy, a type of species that the cat might drag in.