Last Word Blog

See the Aviva Stadium

Matt Cooper — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Matt received a tour of the new AVIVA Stadium - the remodelling of the old Landsdowne Road ground. You can check out the video below and we've posted some photos here.

Grand Canal Theatre Tour

Matt Cooper — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:49:32 GMT

Click on the photograph to view our gallery of tour of Ireland's newset venue. Listen to Matt's exclusive tour here and listen to Matt's interview with Harry Crosbie here.

Achtung! Red Hot Poker!!

Matt Cooper — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:56:06 GMT

Tony Cascarino tells Matt about his lucky escape from the armed raid at the Grand Hyatt, Berlin over the weekend. Here's some raw footage. Audio here.

Emotive interview with Tracey Fay's uncle

Matt Cooper — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:11:08 GMT

In case you missed it earlier, here is Matt's full length interview with Damien Fay, the uncle of Tracey Fay, who tragically died from a drug overdose while in state care. Listen here

Darren Farley

Matt Cooper — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:55:00 GMT

Kerry Manager Jack O'Connor on Paul Galvin

Matt Cooper — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:08:33 GMT

Listen back here to Matt's interview with Kerry manager Jack O'Connor where he defended Paul Galvin to the hilt and had a right go at Cork.

Farewell Liam Brady

Matt Cooper — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:00:20 GMT

Tonight is Liam's last game in his current FAI role - here's his winner against Brazil in 1987 at Lansdowne. Let's hope for something similar tonight...

It's all for Charidee

Matt Cooper — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:39:13 GMT

Fair play to Man Utd's squad for putting themsleves at the mercy of James Corden....

Christopher 'Highlander' Lambert interview

Matt Cooper — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:20:55 GMT

Christopher Lambert, star of the Highlander films, joined Matt on Monday's show after the launch of this year's Cork French Film Festival. Listen Back

A Great night in Flannery's

Matt Cooper — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:12:52 GMT

You Can't Always Get What You Want....

Matt Cooper — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:44:23 GMT

Even Cristiano Ronaldo loses out sometimes. In this vid, he and Xabi Alonso have a bit of a tiff over who should take a penalty for Real (via empireofthekop)

Gentle Reminder: We're on Facebook and Twitter!!

Matt Cooper — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:16:17 GMT

Whether it's Twitter streams or Facebook feeds you're into, you can now can keep up to speed with all Last Word happenings via the URLs below:

Our Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dublin-Ireland/The-Last-Word-with-Matt-Cooper/320680996649

Our Twitter stream: @lstwrd

Matt's own Twitter stream: @cooper_m

Trevor Sargent Resigns

Matt Cooper — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:20:10 GMT

Francois Pienaar visits the Last Word on Sport

Matt Cooper — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:37:03 GMT

While Frankie Sheahan and Donal O'Grady were well wrapped up, the former South African captain was eating an ice cream on arrival in studio - pretty impressive hard man credentials!To listen back to the interview click here.

Both Sides of the O'Gara / Myers story

Matt Cooper — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:14:42 GMT

Here's Myers' article that upset O'Gara - http://url.ie/54m0 and here's O'Gara's complaint letter - http://url.ie/54m3. What do you think?