As the Ivan Yates story was breaking, The Currency wondered how many other leading figures in Irish media were wearing two hats: one journalistic, one very much the opposite. Yates, a former Fine Gael minister, bookmaker, and broadcaster, had covered the presidential race for Newstalk while simultaneously providing media training to one of the candidates, Jim Gavin. The relationship with Jim Gavin was not disclosed, nor were other media-training gigs with other Fianna Fáil ministers, it later emerged. Yates spoke in his own defence on Monday’s RTÉ Today programme, saying that he hadn’t done anything wrong. He said he hadn’t…

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