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Matt Cooper

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Matt Cooper: Leo the Lip seems to think representing Ireland abroad is a joking matter

Making an ill-advised Clinton quip and ducking out of an important lunch with big multinational American investors in Ireland does not become an Taoiseach
  • Matt Cooper
  • March 18, 2023
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Matt Cooper: Forget ‘Landlord Leo’, the real issue is the failure to deliver housing

Unless something changes, we will be stuck with under-supply, unaffordability and homelessness as long as this government lasts
  • Matt Cooper
  • March 11, 2023
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Matt Cooper: Denis O’Brien finally folds ’em after calling his creditors’ bluff for long enough

The Digicel boss surrendered a majority of the ownership of his Caribbean mobile phone operation, but he’s still enormously wealthy with a raft of assets in Ireland and abroad
  • Matt Cooper
  • March 4, 2023
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Matt Cooper: DJ Carey debt deal may not be as favourable as it would first appear

The law recognises that where the debtor does not have the means to repay the debt, the amount can be written down, otherwise do we want to bring back 19th-century-style debtor prisons?
  • Matt Cooper
  • February 25, 2023
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Matt Cooper: Our relationship with an increasingly dominant China demands scrutiny

The Minister for the Environment’s upcoming state visit to China – a country that has been expanding its influence globally, amid growing security concerns in the West – provides an opportunity for some much-needed public discussions
  • Matt Cooper
  • February 18, 2023
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Matt Cooper: Ahern versus Adams 2025 – potentially the presidential contest of the century

In an imaginable scenario where the two political beasts face off, both would have a great deal of baggage to overcome – but how much would a modern electorate really care?
  • Matt Cooper
  • February 10, 2023
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Matt Cooper: Chelsea’s new owners playing a risky game in stockpiling unproven talent

The club’s deep-pocketed owners see the enormous outlay on new players as capital investment, but if Chelsea fail to qualify for next season’s Champions League, then players may well have to be sold to recover the cost
  • Matt Cooper
  • February 4, 2023
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Matt Cooper: Why left-wing critics are wrong to target Coillte’s clever forestry deal

Opponents may be concerned more with private farmers being denied an opportunity than with landgrabbing
  • Matt Cooper
  • January 28, 2023
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Matt Cooper: Free GP care proposal raises issues of practicality over cost

The price of extending free doctor visits to all citizens is estimated at €880 million a year, but there are bigger questions around GP shortages, pay rates and financial responsibility
  • Matt Cooper
  • January 21, 2023
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Matt Cooper: Prince Harry boosts his coffers while taking no prisoners among press and peers

It’s hard to blame Harry for hitting back against the monarchy and the media that made a sport out of his life for entertainment and profit
  • Matt Cooper
  • January 14, 2023
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Matt Cooper: Refugees and immigrants need more than our good intentions

We need to talk about how we’re welcoming refugees and immigrants – and whether we need to put temporary limits on that welcome
  • Matt Cooper
  • January 7, 2023
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High impact: can rugby tough it out against an unforgiving future?

Even if all our dreams of a tilt at the World Cup and Champions Cup come true this year, rugby is still a sport facing overwhelming challenges
  • Matt Cooper
  • December 31, 2022
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Matt Cooper: Infantino’s accession proves the maxim ‘be careful what you wish for’

The football world wanted Sepp Blatter out, but he has been replaced by an even more powerful autocrat with a speciality in gaslighting
  • Matt Cooper
  • December 23, 2022
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Matt Cooper: Varadkar video shows the fine line between invasion of privacy and the public interest

Most of the traditional media didn’t print what was widely available on social media, but were they complicit in a conspiracy of silence, protecting Varadkar from public scrutiny, or were they showing the necessary discretion?
  • Matt Cooper
  • December 17, 2022
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Matt Cooper: New contract means Ryanair’s ‘O’Leary era’ is still in mid-flight

It’s hard to imagine the Irish airline without its firebrand chief executive – but that won’t be necessary for a while, as his newly inked contract extends until 2028
  • Matt Cooper
  • December 10, 2022
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Matt Cooper: Quinn Country reveals that bankruptcy has not stripped the ex-billionaire of his ego

Seán Quinn’s behaviour – tears and all – in the documentary on RTÉ was evidence of his biggest asset and worst liability
  • Matt Cooper
  • December 3, 2022
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Matt Cooper: Fifa’s dirty laundry includes a load of blatant World Cup greenwashing

The world football organiser claims the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is ‘a fully carbon-neutral event’, but there are arguments that the tournament may contribute up to 10 million tonnes of carbon emissions
  • Matt Cooper
  • November 26, 2022
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Matt Cooper: Ronaldo spat raises questions over who has the bigger brand – superclubs or superstars

The Portuguese superstar is engaged in a war with Manchester United after an interview in which he claimed the club care more about marketing than sport. But the controversy suggests MUFC is no longer even at the top level of business management
  • Matt Cooper
  • November 19, 2022
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Matt Cooper: Liverpool FC transfer rumours raise questions about club’s future

The football club was recently valued at £3.6 billion, but if FSG, its American owner, sells up, what will it mean for the team beloved of so many Irish fans?
  • Matt Cooper
  • November 12, 2022
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Matt Cooper: Bono’s paradoxical life between the material and immaterial worlds

‘An artist is not a sacred soul because they make art,’ writes the U2 lead singer in an engaging memoir that is far more than the sum of its parts
  • Matt Cooper
  • November 5, 2022

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