Ivan Yates, at the Irish Home Builders Association Summit - Delivering Housing for All; Where Do We Go From Here?, at Croke Park, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times
A notable feature of the fiasco surrounding Ivan Yates’s abrupt exit from the Path to Power podcast was the casual dismissiveness of cause by some of his fans. It wasn’t such a big deal, in summary. “Lighten up, Matt,” said one, addressing Yates’s ex-podcast partner, Matt Cooper. Columnist and academic Eoin O’Malley commented that it “has to be the least scandalous of scandals in the history of Irish political scandals”.
O’Malley may be right at one level – if by scandal we mean the seismic corruption revealed by Ben Dunne’s massive payments to Charlie Haughey or Moriarty’s conclusions about Michael Lowry.
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