Matt Cooper (Irish: Matiú Cúipéir) is an Irish journalist and presenter of The Last Word on Today FM.
Cooper was educated at the North Monastery (North Mon) school and University College Cork. He is a former editor of the Sunday Tribune, appointed in September 1996, as well as a former business editor of the Irish Independent. Then aged 30, he was the youngest person in Ireland to be appointed an editor of a national newspaper.[1]
Mr. Cooper was awarded Business Journalist of the Year in 1992 and 1999 and also National Journalist of the Year in 1993 and 2001. He is a graduate of Dublin City University.
Currently, Cooper presents the news review show The Last Word on Today FM from 16:30 to 19:00 every weekday. In 2008, he spent hours recreating the iconic picture used for the cover of Abbey Road to publicise Today FM's move across the River Liffey only to admit "I'm not really a Beatles fan. Maybe I'm just a little bit too young or something".[2] Cooper writes a weekly column for the Irish Examiner and one for the Irish edition of The Sunday Times newspaper.
In 2009, Mr Cooper realised a book called Who really runs Ireland. The book examines Irish businessmen and politicians and their relationships.
In 2011, Kim Bielenberg said in the Irish Independent that Cooper would make a worthy replacement for Pat Kenny at RTÉ with Kenny in the "autumn of his career". Bielenberg also said Cooper was "never going to be the next Graham Norton".[3]
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