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Bankrupt high-flyers risk losing pensions in UK courts
1 month ago

DEVELOPERS and former high-flyers who go to the UK to avail of its "soft" bankruptcy laws face the prospect of losing their multimillion-euro pensions, it has emerged.The English courts have set a precedent by ruling that pension funds can now be taken f
Yates's exit was Ireland's loss
2 months ago

Madam -- It is not often that John-Paul McCarthy is given to eulogise people. But his article on how Ivan Yates chaired a panel of politicians (Sunday Independent, March 18, 2012) was instructive " ... watching him [Yates] demolish the Labour Senator Joh
Yates bids farewell to listeners a day early
1 month ago

FORMER government minister Ivan Yates was upbeat yesterday as he bid a final farewell to listeners on his radio show.The former bookmaker and Fine Gael agriculture minister from Co Wexford announced last month that he would be leaving his post as co-pres
Bank piles €4,000-a-week interest on to Ivan's debt
2 months ago

The liquidation does not end the debt crisis for Mr Yates because he personally guaranteed the company's debts.The bank has now given the former agriculture minister until May 13 to repay the debts.Mr Yates, a father of four, is married to Deirdre, who w
Yates ponders his next move as AIB closes in for the kill
2 months ago

BROADCASTER and businessman Ivan Yates is trying to figure out his next move as he faces bankruptcy following the collapse of his bookmaking empire. He admitted that his future is now "exceptionally bleak".The Newstalk presenter and former Fine Gael gove
Final collapse of his life's work took just 25 minutes
2 months ago

IVAN Yates is a big man. He easily dominates the dozen or so creditors, lawyers and accountants milling around the foyer of the Pearse Hotel in Dublin city centre.They are here for the "creditors' meeting" to mark the final collapse of Celtic Bookmakers,
To stay or go -- ex-minister now at third crossroads in career
2 months ago

MASSIVE personal debts have left Ivan Yates trapped between the devil and the deep blue sea.Yesterday, the former political heavyweight brought the curtain down on the ruins of his business empire.The chain of 47 betting shops is now gone, just like the
Fionnan Sheahan: TD condemned by Moriarty always had access to Fine Gael
1 month ago

'IS that an application form I see in your top pocket?" Enda Kenny raised eyebrows within Fine Gael with this remark to Michael Lowry at the 50th birthday party of Phil Hogan two years ago.The Fine Gael leader made no fewer than three references acknowle