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Matt Cooper: Leinster’s win on Friday can’t mask mounting financial and player pressures

Matt Cooper: Leinster’s win on Friday can’t mask mounting financial and player pressures

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20.06.2026 10

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Matt Cooper: Before you buy SpaceX shares, remember what happened to Eircom investors

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13.06.2026 20

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Matt Cooper: US Ambassador attends fringe anti-EU forum as Trump allies eye Irish politics

19.01.2026 30

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Matt Cooper: Turmoil to the left, danger to the right, Ireland stuck in a world of nightmarish peril

12.01.2026 20

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Matt Cooper remembers the business leaders we lost in 2025

31.12.2025 40

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Matt Cooper: EV sales are stalling and Europe’s climate ambitions will be the casualty

15.12.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Ireland wants fewer migrants, yet its economy says otherwise

01.12.2025 20

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Matt Cooper: Paschal-sized hole in Fine Gael not easily filled by the light brigade

24.11.2025 20

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Matt Cooper on Denis O’Brien: Not a good look for wealthy old men to punch down at younger generations

17.11.2025 20

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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 20

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

20.10.2025 20

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

12.10.2025 20

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

05.10.2025 20

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

22.09.2025 30

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

22.09.2025 20

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

14.09.2025 30

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

25.08.2025 30

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

10.08.2025 20

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

04.08.2025 30

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

02.08.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Occupied Territories Bill sparks fear among Irish corporates

21.07.2025 20

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

20.07.2025 20

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

14.07.2025 20

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Matt Cooper: Hesitation over nuclear power could endanger investment

06.07.2025 20

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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 30

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

25.05.2025 30

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

19.05.2025 20

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

11.05.2025 20

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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 30

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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 20

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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 10

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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 50

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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 10

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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 20

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