The Second HalfRoy Keane with Roddy Doyle
In November, the Irish Government unveiled plans for the centenary of the Easter Rising. The launch featured a video called “Ireland Inspires’’ which, bizarrely, made no mention of those who fought and died in 1916, but instead culminated with footage of Brian O’Driscoll scoring a try. Meanwhile, in the same week, one of the most read stories on the Irish Times website was “Roy Keane in tense stand-off with media over hotel incident”. On this evidence, O’Driscoll and Keane stand for very different values in Irish cultural life. Refreshingly, the recently published autobiographies of Keane and O’Driscoll upset such assumptions. It is O’Driscoll, not Keane, who declares in the early pages of hi
30 December 2014, The Tablet
The Test: My Autobiography
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