Sunday Tribune editor quits

The editor of Dublin’s Sunday Tribune newspaper, Matt Cooper, resigned today on being appointed full time presenter of The Last Word on TodayFM.

Mr Cooper is to succeed former soccer international and present-day journalist and broadcaster Eamon Dunphy as host of the daily early evening programme on the independent station on January 1.

Mr Cooper, the editor since 1996, will continue as a writer with the Sunday Tribune.

A spokesman for the newspaper said a new editor will be sought immediately.