Matt Cooper is a radio and TV broadcaster, newspaper columnist and best-selling author. Matt presents and edits the daily news, current affairs and sports programme, ‘The Last Word’ on Today FM. He previously presented ‘The Tonight Show’ on Virgin Media One. He writes a weekly newspaper column for The Irish Daily Mail
Matt Cooper is a radio and TV broadcaster, newspaper columnist and best-selling author. Matt presents and edits the daily news, current affairs and sports programme, ‘The Last Word’ on Today FM. He previously presented ‘The Tonight Show’ on Virgin Media One. He writes a weekly newspaper column for The Irish Daily Mail that is published each Wednesday and The Last Post column on the back page of the Business Post each Sunday.
In 2024, Matt launched his podcast, ‘Path to Power’, alongside former colleague Ivan Yates. 2024 is going to be the year of elections, in Ireland, the UK, US and the European Union. In Path to Power, experienced broadcasters Matt Cooper and Ivan Yates bring their individual points of view to a lively weekly discussion that sets the agenda and examines all the issues. The podcast has topped the charts each week since its release on both Apple and Spotify. In October 2023, Matt released his book Who Really Owns Ireland?. Matt examines the key players behind the scenes of Irish property ownership – who really controls the valuable land where we live, work and play, and how did they acquire it? Who are the new foreign investors, and why?
He has written two major business biographies, both of which were short-listed for Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year: The Maximalist, the story of Tony O’Reilly’(2015) and Michael O’Leary, turbulent times for the man who made Ryanair (2018). The latter was a Financial Times book of the month in September 2018. He also authored the number-one bestseller Who Really Runs Ireland (2009) and How Ireland Really Went Bust (2011), both of which were also short-listed for Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
