Background
Matt Cooper was born in Cork in 1966 and was educated at the North Monastery (North Mon) school and later at University College Cork.
Matt Cooper was born in Cork in 1966 and was educated at the North Monastery (North Mon) school and later at University College Cork.
He is a former editor of the Sunday Tribune. As well as radio, sport was another early passion. Cooper played rugby with Sunday"s Well and later captained the under-20s team
He also had a fondness for Gaelic Athletic Association, and played Gaelic football and hurling for the Bishopstown Gaelic Athletic Association club
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.
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.
Cooper presents the news review show 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". Cooper writes a weekly column for the Irish Examiner and one for the Irish edition of The Sunday Times newspaper.
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". In January 2014, Cooper secretly accompanied Dennis Rodman to North of Korea for Kim Jong-un"s big birthday basketball game.
His cover was blown when they were seen together on Sky News at an airport in Beijing. Today FM confirmed Cooper"s presence in North of Korea and that he would meet Kim Jong-un while there.