Ivan Yates’s exhortation to Fine Gael during a Newstalk podcast to “smear the bejaysus” out of Catherine Connolly in the presidential campaign was true to form for the broadcaster and former politician.
Since arriving in the media industry in 2010, Yates’s trademark approach has been to stir controversy with colourful and divisive language.
For example, while hosting a debate on Virgin Media One during the 2018 presidential election, he described Michael D Higgins as a “pompous poet probably past his sell-by date”.
Then, in a 2020 general election debate on TV, he had the chutzpah to accuse the seven pa
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