Brent Pope is a former legacy RTE Broadcaster, MC, & Wellbeing speaker. New Zealand-born rugby player, coach and TV commentator Brent Pope played rugby with top New Zealand side Otago University before finally settling in Ireland in 1991 and lining out for three seasons with St Marys RFC. Later Brent coached Clontarf RFC for two seasons, leading them to promotion to Division One of the AIL.
Brent was previously employed a Marketing Manager for Brookfield MRI Clinic, and then as an award-winning European Marketing Manager for a leading Irish and international property development company.
Brent has worked for RTÉ Sport for over 20 years and has also appeared in many crossover programmes such as ‘The Restaurant’ (Irish TV series), and in ‘The Den’, ‘The Afternoon Show’, ‘The Hook and Popey Roadshow’, ‘The Late Late Show’, ‘The Saturday Night Show’, and various travel programmes. Brent also starred as a singer in ‘Charity You’re a Star’ in 2007. In 2012 he learned and played the clarinet for the RTÉ reality music show ‘Instrumental’.
He is also the curator of a popular art gallery for mental health artists called The ‘Outside In Art Gallery’, and has a movie script entitled ‘Coming out to Play’ listed with a major movie production company. Brent is involved in several mental health charities, and is an ambassador for St Patrick’s Hospital ‘Walk in My Shoes’, ‘Cycle Against Suicide’, and RTE’s ‘People Of The Year’.
Brents own charity “Elephant in The Room” established in 2022 is aimed to promote and raise awareness of mental health within professional organisations across Ireland & The UK. Brent’s charity is an organisations public declaration to being committed to supporting employees wellbeing by playing a physical decorated elephant art piece in companies offices.
In his candid autobiography, If You Really Knew Me, Brent Pope talked openly, for the first time ever, about his rugby career and personal life. A ruthless, tough player who “ran like a reverse hovercraft”, Pope’s aggressive, uncompromising style inspired the legendary players around him and the teams he coached. He has also published a series of award winning children’s books for charity.
To book Broadcaster, MC, & Wellbeing Speaker Brent Pope for your event, contact Front Row Speakers on +353 1 485 3991 or email welcome@frontrowspeakers.com.
“I found the talk very beneficial and insightful. I think it was great of Brent to share his story and promote mental health awareness as it’s something that’s so often overlooked. I was glad that Intel asked him to give this talk and I think it was probably the best event for workplace wellness week”
– Intel
“Found Brent to be very open and frank about his journey and health issues. He spoke in a very relaxed informal way which meant it was easy to identify with him”
– Garda Siochanna
“We had a fabulous day yesterday. Thank-you Brent for speaking and taking the time afterwards to take photos and to speak to everyone. It meant a lot. Your insightful presentation impacted everyone in the room because as you so rightly said almost all of us have known or know someone who is dealing with a mental health issue”
– Iarnród Éireann
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