Magnified with Matt Cooper
Matt Cooper
A podcast hosted by Matt Cooper featuring intimate, in-depth and insightful interviews with guests from across the worlds of entertainment, business, sports, politics and more. Audiences are long familiar with Matt’s skill as an interviewer through his radio and TV work. Now for the first time, his podcast offers him (and his guests) the opportunity to chat more personally than we’ve heard before. It’s a Matt Cooper interview, magnified.
Episodes
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Jun 20, 2022 • 1h 5min
Odds overturned with Stewart Kenny
Being a bookie. Being a reformed bookie. Guilt and responsibility for the betting pandemic. Getting a ADHD diagnosis, aged 41. Being a Buddhist. Dealing with Ivan Yates. Cycling 170kms of mountains as a 70-year old. Paddy Power founder Stewart Kenny at full pace.
Jun 13, 2022 • 1h 13min
High achievement with Jonathan Ruane
The challenge and achievement of climbing Mount Everest this year. The Sligo farming background. Trinity and MIT. The future of work. The immersion in the future offered by Artificial Intelligence. How our health system can be changed for the better. His role as a new director at RTE. Meet high achiever Jonathan Ruane.
Jun 6, 2022 • 55min
Foreign affairs with Bobby McDonagh
An Irishman in Oxford during the Troubles. What he learnt about Boris Johnson. Time as Irish ambassador to the EU and UK. How to develop working relations. A new retirement career as a thriller writer. Bobby McDonagh offers insight into how things work behind the scenes in international diplomacy.
May 30, 2022 • 1h 11min
Flying high with Domhnal Slattery
Aircraft leasing with Avolon. Dealing with being 11 when his father died. DJing under a false name and a possible career in radio. The chances offered to him by Tony Ryan and GPA. Going bust. Fergal Quinn saving him. The future of electric aircraft with Vertical Aerospace. Getting PhDs to research in Ireland. Domhnal Slattery’s extraordinary story.
May 24, 2022 • 52min
Rucked and mauled with Neil Francis
Being cancelled for getting something wrong. Rebuilding a reputation and career. Former Ireland rugby international turned journalist Neil Francis on making a mistake, paying the price and returning.
May 15, 2022 • 1h 2min
The state of housing with Land Development Agency CEO John Coleman
What the Land Development Agency does – and its role in solving our housing crisis. The difficulty in getting things done. The importance of public service. Meet LDA chief executive John Coleman for an insight into the role of the State in solving one of our greatest problems.
May 9, 2022 • 1h 11min
Drop down with Bobby Healy
Drone delivery of your coffee. Owning Tesla cars. Writing Ninetendo programmes. Mexico as a teenager. Developing and leaving Cartrawler. Going again with something new. Tech evangelist Bobby Healy of Manna Aero joins us.
May 3, 2022 • 1h 3min
The insider’s tale with Fintan Drury
Boardroom service with Sean Fitzpatrick. What he knew about Anglo Irish Bank. Chairing Paddy Power and the regrets. Campaigning against bad gambling practices. Friendship with Brian Cowen. Honest talk from Fintan Drury.
Apr 25, 2022 • 1h 2min
Truth telling with Áine Kerr
The tech entrepreneur on combatting deliberate misinformation. The role of women in a tech sector dominated by men. Leaving teaching. Entering journalism. Working in New York and returning home. Aine Kerr of Kinzen gets to the points.
Apr 14, 2022 • 1h 2min
The bouncing ball with Frankie Sheahan
The Pendulum Summit. Boris Johnson and Tony Robbins and their demands. Munster and Irish rugby and an Australian casino win at the 2003 World Cup. Overcoming personal bankruptcy. Catch the bouncing ball with Frankie Sheahan.
