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Matt Cooper: Old pal Wilbur Ross gives a fascinating insight to how the court of Trump operates

03.11.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Future for Virgin Media TV looks increasingly uncertain as Malone dumps ITV stock

26.10.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Dunnes Stores dynasty story as much about matriarch Margaret as her controversial brother Ben

20.10.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: It is some achievement to make a €9.4bn budget feel like austerity for taxpayers

12.10.2025 8

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Matt Cooper: The seven key things to watch out for in Tuesday’s make-or-break budget

05.10.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: I agree with Trump – ending need to report quarterly makes some sense

22.09.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Circumstances of Kenny Jacobs’ departure are utterly bizarre

22.09.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Soaring Ryder Cup bill likely to land at the feet of the taxpayer

14.09.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Sturgeon’s Frankly offers a fascinating trip through modern Scottish history

25.08.2025 20

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Matt Cooper: ‘Contrarian’ Desmond’s call to axe Metro all a bit rich

10.08.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Paul Coulson’s €93m Ardagh exit marks end of a high-wire financing act

04.08.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: John Malone’s Irish empire extends far beyond mansion that caught Zuckerberg’s eye

02.08.2025 8

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Matt Cooper: Occupied Territories Bill sparks fear among Irish corporates

21.07.2025 9

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Matt Cooper: Dalata sale marks the end of an Irish champion and a warning to hotel sector

20.07.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Ryanair at 40 is one of Ireland’s truly outstanding business success stories

14.07.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Hesitation over nuclear power could endanger investment

06.07.2025 9

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Matt Cooper: Beds, Bills and Blame – Why the state can’t afford to own its nursing home crisis

23.06.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Irish Water crisis setting us up for a national emergency

02.06.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Ireland’s $300bn aircraft leasing empire under threat without action

25.05.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Could spikeflation be Donald Trump’s next gift to the world economy?

19.05.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Ireland shows courage in stand on Gaza in face of likely US retribution

11.05.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Another housing plan, another grand mess

If the public had little faith in the government’s ability to solve the housing crisis before, the ‘housing tsar’ debacle has definitely not helped

04.05.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: RTÉ should ditch softly, softly approach to cuts in favour of Intel’s radical surgery

Fundamental reform rather than incremental change is required at the national broadcaster

27.04.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: The economics must work if a united Ireland is to be achieved, and they are not working at present

In Germany, living standards in the east have not risen to the levels of those in the west 35 years after re–unification

20.04.2025 7

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Matt Cooper: Trump pivot towards economic war with China may help Ireland

Corporate America, the majority of which is seething at Trump’s craziness, may need Ireland as a location from which it can trade

13.04.2025 7

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Matt Cooper: Corporate America’s craven cowards are to blame for Trump

Many bosses should resign for failing their shareholders, given the damage that he is going to do to the economy of the US and the rest of the world,...

06.04.2025 7

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Matt Cooper: At Bertie’s side, Des Richardson was one of Ireland’s most powerful un-elected men

He served the former taoiseach loyally, but his fingerprints were on many of the financial mistakes that Ahern made

30.03.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Ex-Facebook worker’s bestselling inside scoop has poked the Meta bear

This compelling, devastating and essential book has sparked a visceral response from furious Meta bosses

24.03.2025 7

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Matt Cooper: The inside story of how Facebook became a global bully

This compelling, devastating and essential book from Sarah Wynn-Williams has sparked a visceral response from furious Meta bosses

23.03.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Ratcliffe’s radical plan for embattled Manchester United is built on sand

The club’s financial track record over the last decade has been disastrous – and it is surprising that co-owner Jim Ratcliffe seems to have been...

16.03.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Martin must prepare for worst and hope for best in Oval Office showdown with Donald Trump

Taoiseach, as the son of a boxer, knows about the need to duck and dive to avoid taking a hit

08.03.2025 7

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Matt Cooper: With or without you – Life without Intel in Ireland is not so unbelievable

Beleaguered chip maker, with its €17bn plant in Leixlip, has been the master of its own misfortune

02.03.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Government must embrace unpopular and controversial ideas to solve housing crisis

The radical efforts to create jobs after the financial crash should instruct this government in how to solve the dilemma it faces

23.02.2025 9

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Matt Cooper: We cannot damage our national interest through short-sighted gesture politics

Government, led by Micheál Martin, is going to have to hasten slowly – or wait in the long grass – in how it addresses the nonsense of Trump

09.02.2025 20

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Matt Cooper: Trumpism may be mad and bad, but his overseas tax moves are not wrong

Ireland has taken advantage of a system that has allowed us to prosper at America’s expense

26.01.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Galling that tech bosses are bending the knee in the presence of Trump

Maybe we should expect the US president-elect to float the idea of Ireland becoming the 54th state, if only to get rid of the trade balance in our...

12.01.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Let’s hope Musk wins in his clash with the Maga mob over US immigration

The world’s richest man is a dangerous force in the next US administration and his influence in Europe is growing

05.01.2025 4

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Matt Cooper: Some of Ireland’s bravest and best business leaders left us in 2024

From Tony O’Reilly to David Power, some of Ireland’s top captains of industry died

22.12.2024 7

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Matt Cooper: Awarding World Cup to Saudi Arabia is latest disgracefully grubby act by Fifa

Leading Irish companies and state agencies have strong bases in Middle-Eastern country with its dubious human rights records

15.12.2024 9

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Matt Cooper: As the general election dust settles, what now for Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin?

The future looks very different for Simon Harris, Micheál Martin and Mary Lou McDonald than it did ten days ago

08.12.2024 6

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Matt Cooper: McGregor’s once-golden whiskey empire, Proper No. Twelve, loses its shine

Drinks giant Proximo cuts ties after the former MMA star’s very public civil trial

01.12.2024 6

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Matt Cooper: From start-up to national institution – 35 years of the Business Post

As Ireland began to open up, the Sunday Business Post succeeded in bringing business to a wider audience in an accessible fashion

01.12.2024 6

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Matt Cooper: Sleepwalking into crisis – Ireland’s election ignores global storm clouds

Ireland is highly vulnerable to attacks and we might be militarily neutral but we may not be spared

24.11.2024 5

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Matt Cooper: Michael O’Leary’s outburst on teachers put Fine Gael in tricky spot

There are votes to be lost by what the Ryanair boss said, but there are many who would fully agree with his comments

11.11.2024 3

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Matt Cooper: Elon Musk’s role in election was most cynical and effective ever exercise of media power

The Tesla and X owner played a critical role in Donald Trump’s victory and stands personally to be a major benificiary over the next four years

10.11.2024 2

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Matt Cooper: 20 reasons why I want Trump to lose

03.11.2024 2

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Matt Cooper: Cork event centre saga has become a local and national embarrassment

It is extraordinary that failure marks this project as it should have had three ministerial champions in Micheál Martin, Simon Coveney and Michael...

27.10.2024 4

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Matt Cooper: We cannot afford to scare major property investors away when we need so many new homes

Debate about housing in the forthcoming general election is likely to be fundamentally dishonest

20.10.2024 1

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Matt Cooper: Data centre limits and airport passenger cap are acts of self-sabotage

It is time for the state to show its ambition to grow the economy and remove the brakes which risk stagnation in core sectors

13.10.2024 10

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Matt Cooper: The larger than life story of Michael Smurfit, a true giant of Irish business

The tycoon, now aged 88 and the subject of a new documentary, was a significant, powerful and at times controversial figure in his day

06.10.2024 2

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