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Ivan Yates

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  • #32
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Irish Times are changing their tune :)

    Article has been updated to remove the claim that he's going to Wales for bankruptcy, Yeats has issued a statement denying it:

    http://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/ivan-yates-to-shelve-media-work-and-leave-ireland-1.2600862


  • #33
    kneemos
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    maudgonner wrote: »
    Irish Times are changing their tune :)

    Article has been updated to remove the claim that he's going to Wales for bankruptcy, Yeats has issued a statement denying it:

    http://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/ivan-yates-to-shelve-media-work-and-leave-ireland-1.2600862


    The Indo says they are travelling.
    Apparently they're all wrong. https://www.google.ie/url?q=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/radio/breaking-ivan-yeats-leaving-newstalk-34605255.html&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwilzcT-yvrLAhUDcA8KHaOoDvMQqG8IHjAA&usg=AFQjCNG6WPMzAzMWMIMvPjj8cF2ZUKEWjQ


  • #34
    Specialun
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    He offered AIB 92 cent in the euro repayment on his loans when the sh1t hit the fan

    They screwed him to the wall and the taxpayer lost out again

    Best of luck Ivan you will be missed

    Do you not think that the 92% offer was binned because he can pay higher..


  • #35
    Fiskar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭Fiskar


    Mrs Y has a bankruptcy to sort out, may as well get travel in as opposed to being in each others way all day long for a year!


  • #36
    brevity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,537 ✭✭✭brevity


    That's a shame, him and Chris are good on Newstalk's morning show.


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  • #37
    kneemos
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    Specialun wrote: »
    Do you not think that the 92% offer was binned because he can pay higher..


    Fairly stupid to offer 92% if you were holding back.


  • #38
    CFlat
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    He's a superb broadcaster esp with his background in politics and his knowledge of sport from his bookmaker days. If only him and Donoghue would quite the stupid jibs and digs they make at each other, the show would be perfect. He'll be a big loss to the NT line up. Assume Coleman will step in.


  • #39
    cmac2009
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    CFlat wrote: »
    He's a superb broadcaster esp with his background in politics and his knowledge of sport from his bookmaker days. If only him and Donoghue would quite the stupid jibs and digs they make at each other, the show would be perfect. He'll be a big loss to the NT line up. Assume Coleman will step in.

    Please god not Coleman


  • #40
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    Ah not again! I love listening to Yates.


  • #41
    fred funk }{
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    Don't get the vitriol towards him to be honest. He was in business and employed a lot of people, made some bad decisions and the business failed. He owed the banks some money and offered them a 92% return and they refused, he had no choice to go bankrupt. I'd say most in here would do exactly the same thing if put in his position.


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  • #42
    micar
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    I cannot stand Ivan and Chris in the morning!!!!

    Ivan only interested in politics, betting and farming...which I have no interest in

    Have an issue with Chris constantly bringing up a certain topic......just wreaks my head.

    Really enjoyed Claire Byrne and Ger Gilroy. Really annoyed and disappointed when they were let go.


  • #43
    Specialun
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Fairly stupid to offer 92% if you were holding back.


    no its not


  • #44
    mattser
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    fred funk }{ wrote: »
    Don't get the vitriol towards him to be honest. He was in business and employed a lot of people, made some bad decisions and the business failed. He owed the banks some money and offered them a 92% return and they refused, he had no choice to go bankrupt. I'd say most in here would do exactly the same thing if put in his position.

    I don't see too much vitriol. There's nothing wrong with some people just not taking to the guy. I'll be glad to hear the back of his inane rubbish in the mornings. That said I wish him and his family good health, and hope it is the case that they are well.


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
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    Jesus I thought he was fairly lame on the radio. Not particularly funny or incisive or sharp, just a bit dull with the odd "breasts, fnarr fnarr" type contribution.


  • #46
    boggerman1
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    If it means that Shane"I luv fianna failure"Coleman is going to be back as Yates's replacement then I'm out


  • #47
    dresden8
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    If I was about to be declared bankrupt I wouldn't be able to give up work for a year on go on holliers like missus Ivan and himself seem able to.


  • #48
    Superhorse
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    JupiterKid wrote: »
    That's a real shame. He's a great broadcaster.


    But an awful wanker.


  • #49
    Superhorse
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    boggerman1 wrote: »
    If it means that Shane"I luv fianna failure"Coleman is going to be back as Yates's replacement then I'm out

    Coleman has been shilling for IW for the last 2 years non stop on Newstalk. FF are against IW.


  • #50
    Letree
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    fred funk }{ wrote: »
    Don't get the vitriol towards him to be honest. He was in business and employed a lot of people, made some bad decisions and the business failed. He owed the banks some money and offered them a 92% return and they refused, he had no choice to go bankrupt. I'd say most in here would do exactly the same thing if put in his position.

    Its the old Irish attitude to bankruptcy from 50 years ago. Terrible altogether should be laden down with shame.


  • #51
    XR3i
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    "i will arise and go now

    and go to inis free"

    i b yeats


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  • #52
    Kristopherus
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    fred funk }{ wrote: »
    Don't get the vitriol towards him to be honest. He was in business and employed a lot of people, made some bad decisions and the business failed. He owed the banks some money and offered them a 92% return and they refused, he had no choice to go bankrupt. I'd say most in here would do exactly the same thing if put in his position.

    Well, get this. He owned a chain of bookies that went bust. What did he do? he fcuked off to Wales to live a "terribly lonely" life there for a year so that he could give the 2 fingers to his creditors. And what about his staff? They did'nt get a red rex from him. He did what every coward does, ran away.:mad::mad::mad:


  • #53
    Richard Hillman
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    I genuinely think that some people actually go out of their way just to not like somebody in the public eye.


  • #54
    XR3i
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    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    I genuinely think that some people actually go out of their way just to not like somebody in the public eye.

    genuinely?


  • #55
    maryishere
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    Kristopherus wrote: »
    . And what about his staff? They did'nt get a red rex from him.

    Did the staff not get redundany payments from the receiver to the business?

    And Yates went bankrupt, so how was he supposed to give his ex staff red rexes beyond that?

    He took a big risk going in to business, he lost all his assets in the bankruptcy I assume.

    I'm sure if he was to live his life again since retiring from politics he would not have set up his bookmakers business. If nobody dared to set up a business in Ireland, what sort of place would it be?
    The begrudgers here probably created nothing in their lives.


  • #56
    Dirty Dingus McGee
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    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    I genuinely think that some people actually go out of their way just to not like somebody in the public eye.

    Or maybe people simply don't like him and haven't went out of there way to not like him they just simply don't like him.


  • #57
    greendom
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    Far too opinionated for me. Really dislike his 'let me tell you how it is attitude'. Prefer my news to be delivered with a semblance of neutrality


  • #58
    ThisRegard
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    mattser wrote: »
    I'll be glad to hear the back of his inane rubbish in the mornings.

    You know you could change channel to avoid listening to people you dislike instead of waiting for them to leave the radio station?


  • #59
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    Can they take Chris with them? He's obnoxious !


  • #60
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,902 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    maryishere wrote: »
    Did the staff not get redundany payments from the receiver to the business?

    And Yates went bankrupt, so how was he supposed to give his ex staff red rexes beyond that?

    He took a big risk going in to business, he lost all his assets in the bankruptcy I assume.

    I'm sure if he was to live his life again since retiring from politics he would not have set up his bookmakers business. If nobody dared to set up a business in Ireland, what sort of place would it be?
    The begrudgers here probably created nothing in their lives.

    He has a big fat ministerial pension to support him and spouse. Then he lands at Newstalk on a €100k +salary. For a man that preached morals during his life, he came up very short on that score when his business blew up. All he was concerned with was how fast he could get out of the country.


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  • #61
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,308 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    I think the pension is in the control of the bank, and from what I remember, when his mother dies, they take the family home and farm. In which she has "her day".
    So not like it's all rosy in the garden, and a jolly jaunt abroad.
    Not too many would like to swop places with that....


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