Yates tests his form at racehorse breeding
The former politician and broadcaster has set up a thoroughbred business with €1.5 million from multiple high-profile investors
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The former politician and broadcaster has set up a thoroughbred business with €1.5 million from multiple high-profile investors
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But the broadcaster also admits he now is now “glad to see the back of Trump”. Former TD turned media star Yates interviewed Donald Trump on Newstalk when he visited Clare in early in 2016 before he was elected. “My attitude is that first of all he won and that was fine,” points out Yates, who also spent nearly four months in America on the election trail in 2016. “I think that the worst of Trump came after last year’s election. "He didn’t handle himself at all well in terms of accepting the result and then the whole episode with the Capitol, he went from bad to worse.”