07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Roy Keane returns to Cork ahead of three nights of conversation at LATM
Fans of Roy Keane will be in for a treat over the next week or so, as the Corkman returns home for a stint at Live at the Marquee.
The ex-footballer-turned-pundit will be speaking with Roddy Doyle in the iconic tent on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening.
Tickets sold out well in advance for the conversation.
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📢 Due to demand, an extra date has been added for Roy Keane in conversation with Roddy Doyle on 8 July 2025 ⚽️
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The former Manchester United star has been a frequent visitor to his home county in recent years.
He has done plenty of charity work, be it for Marymount Hospice or Cork Penny Dinners, or surprising a die-hard Manchester United fan in the Mercy Hospital in May.
A topic that is likely to be visited at the Marquee tent is the upcoming Saipan film.
It will see Éanna Hardwicke star as the Mayfield man in the dramatic recreation of perhaps Keane's most infamous moment at the 2002 World Cup. A row with then-Ireland manager Mick McCarthy (played by Steve Coogan in the film) led to Keane leaving the World Cup squad.
It won't be the first time that Doyle has been involved with Keane either, having collaborated on the footballer's second autobiography, The Second Half, in 2014.
Speaking to the Irish Examiner last year about that process, Doyle reflected: 'My father loved Roy. I remember Roy telling me about the early days when he was managing Sunderland, and the kit man was in charge of the music — he put on Abba's Greatest Hits and he said Roy just watched his team running out on the pitch while listening to 'Dancing Queen'.
'The way Roy told it, I was listening to it again and again, tears were coming out of me, it was just so funny."
