Beyond Keane’s stick-it-up-your-bollocks, there isn’t much else to Saipan

Why is the film of Ireland’s 2002 World Cup falling-out not a documentary but a drama that takes liberties with events?

Steve Coogan on his Roy Keane film - and his part in Posh and Becks' first meeting

Coogan stars as football boss Mick McCarthy in the film Saipan, about the fall-out between him and captain Roy Keane.

Nonfiction books coming in 2026: From a new memoir by Louise O’Neill to Roy Keane’s impact on modern Ireland

Among promising titles are a book about France’s dark side and Jon Ronson’s exploration of multimillionaires searching for ...

‘Roy Keane typifies so much of what I love about Cork’ - Éanna Hardwicke on Saipan

Star Éanna Hardwicke and directors Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa discuss Saipan, their film about Roy Keane and Mick ...

Saipan: Éanna Hardwicke on playing Roy Keane in fiery 2002 World Cup drama

The rising Irish star shines in Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn's upcoming drama about the feud between Keane and Ireland ...

Kevin Kilbane on the Saipan film: I was there – Roy Keane did not call Mick McCarthy an ‘English c**t’

Roy, clearly, felt cornered by Mick, and Roy Keane only knows one way out of a tight spot. He took it that Mick accused him ...

‘We were not p***heads’, fumes Ireland legend as footballer breaks silence on ‘falsehoods’ depicted in Saipan movie

IRELAND legend Kevin Kilbane has slammed “falsehoods” in the Saipan movie and insisted: “We were not p***heads”. The story of ...

‘There was a fantasy ending where Ireland won the World Cup with Roy Keane’ - Saipan directors on bringing the infamous Keane vs McCarthy clash to cinemas

David Roy speaks to Saipan directing duo Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn about how the Good Vibrations filmmakers brought Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy’s infamous World Cup 2002 bust-up to the big sc ...