The lads from Après Match talk about their characters before hitting the road again

The Après Match crew are hitting the road with a new live show that mixes harmless footie fun with skewering satire, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

TO INVERT a Dunphyism, Après Match are not good satirists, they’re great satirists. The trio have been lampooning football pundits, media darlings and global political leaders like Angela Merkel (“yes, that’s right, you little pixie heads”) for the guts of two decades.

Barry Murphy and Risteárd Cooper began as a satirical duo on an RTÉ television show Murphy presented called The End around the mid-1990s, and featured during the broadcaster’s coverage of Euro ’96. Gary Cooke came on board in 1998.