{"id":374133,"date":"2026-03-08T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/374133\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:22:12","slug":"he-didnt-realise-it-was-too-late-by-the-time-he-caught-it-risteard-cooper-on-the-death-of-his-brother-from-prostate-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/374133\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He didn\u2019t realise. It was too late by the time he caught it\u2019: Riste\u00e1rd Cooper on the death of his brother from prostate cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Apres Match comic is taking on his first live solo show\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Riste\u00e1rd Cooper photographed near where he grew up in Ranelagh, Dublin. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Risteard Cooper 16.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Riste\u00e1rd Cooper photographed near where he grew up in Ranelagh, Dublin. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The image of Riste\u00e1rd Cooper in a crazy wig making the nation heave with laughter on RT\u00c9\u2019s Apres Match in the late 1990s is so deeply ingrained in my memory that it\u2019s a shock at first to hear him talk about death and mortality and inner pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But he does it with what can only be described as powerful intimacy. This arguably also feeds into why he has been such a compelling actor on stage and screen over the years \u2013 in everything from Brian Friel\u2019s The Yalta Game for The Gate Theatre in Sydney to Frank McGuinness\u2019s Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme at The Abbey, Delicious on Sky TV or in Quiz on ITV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Apres Match comic is taking on his first live solo show Riste\u00e1rd Cooper photographed near where he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4747,18,117,19,17,12861,23942,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-374133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-barry-egan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-leinster-rugby","14":"tag-people-culture-magazine","15":"tag-rte"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116193063639399274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}