By now everyone has formed an opinion on Roy Keane. It could be argued that it already happened when he left the Ireland team at the 2002 World Cup or when he parted ways with Manchester United four years ago.
Now, there can be no housewife or grandmother left who hasn’t registered some feeling towards him. [...]
When Roy Keane walked out of the Irish squad at the 2002 World Cup, some applauded as loudly as others booed. He had either sacrificed himself for a bigger cause or he had been unable to hold his counsel for the good of the team. Where you stood on the issue depended on your proximity [...]
Since we’re used to reccession - every generation previous to the current one didn’t even know there could be a lesser form of depression called recession - it’s always been easy for Irish people to find scapegoats. When you wallow in self pity for many lifetimes there are plenty of reasons and people to find [...]
IT was a summer evening a few years ago. Nothing significant about it, just a fine evening to play hurling and our group were strung out across the half of the field that housed our games of backs and forwards.
Except I was out in the middle, one of three that weren’t picked among the 12 [...]
