{"id":333050,"date":"2026-03-07T02:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/333050\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T02:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:31:09","slug":"roy-keane-surprises-artist-as-he-finishes-mural-in-his-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/333050\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Keane surprises artist as he finishes mural in his honour"},"content":{"rendered":"

An artist from the Netherlands was left speechless earlier this week when Roy Keane happened to stop and admire a mural he was painting of the former Ireland, Manchester United and Celtic player.<\/p>\n

Roy Valk, who completes artwork for all the restaurants in the Fat Phill\u2019s chain, had put the final touches on a mural facing their new restaurant on Cook Street in Cork city when his namesake stopped for a quick chat.<\/p>\n

Keane jokingly asked Valk if his hair was really as grey in real life as it was in the mural.<\/p>\n

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Valk told the Neil Prendeville show on Cork’s Red FM that he was taking a picture of the mural when a few passersby paused to look at it.<\/p>\n

He very politely asked them if they could move on for a very short period to allow him to take a few photographs for work purposes.<\/p>\n

Valk heard a laugh and realised Keane was in front of him.<\/p>\n

The 54-year-old former manager turned football pundit told Valk that he had to go to a meeting but would return within the hour for a proper conversation.<\/p>\n

“He ( Keane) came back about thirty minutes later, and we got a photograph taken.<\/p>\n

“He was very nice and said he liked the mural.”<\/p>\n

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Former Cork City FC manager Ger Nash charged with drink driving<\/p>\n

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Valk said that Keane was clean-shaven in person and looked \u201ca lot younger\u201d than in the mural where he is sporting a grey beard.<\/p>\n

Fat Phill\u2019s is a Dutch chain which also has restaurants in the UK. They are well known for their smash burger.<\/p>\n

The company had been keen to set up an outlet in Cork for some time. They opened a restaurant in Temple Bar in Dublin last year.<\/p>\n

Their offering in Cork city will open on March 15th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An artist from the Netherlands was left speechless earlier this week when Roy Keane happened to stop and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-333050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}