Risteard Cooper is alive and well and playing in Dublin

The multi-talented star is delighted to be working on a show about his hero Jacques Brel, writes Alan O’Riordan.

For Risteard Cooper, it’s always been about music. His parents were both trained singers, and his first stage performance was as a nine-year-old who liked the idea of his mother suggesting he be the only boy in the cast of a children’s opera she was directing.