{"id":574572,"date":"2026-07-29T23:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574572\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T23:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:50:17","slug":"roy-and-roddy-go-to-extra-time-with-new-live-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574572\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy and Roddy go to extra time with new live shows\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">Former footballer Roy Keane and author Roddy Doyle will talk on stage for two nights at the Gleneagle Arena, Killarney, this autumn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The Manchester United star and he Booker-prize-winning Irish author co-wrote  The Second Half, a frank, brutally honest account of Keane\u2019s days as a player, the highs and lows of his managerial career, and his life as a television pundit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">They followed this up with live shows in Dublin and three sell-out performances at last year\u2019s Live at the Marquee festival in Cork, covering Keane\u2019s career from his Mayfield roots to his infamous Saipan clash with Ireland manager Mick McCarthy before the 2002 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Billed as evenings of \u2018unforgettable stories, insights, and straight-talking conversation\u201d, the shows will take place at the Killarney venue on Friday, September 18 and Saturday, September 19. Tickets for \u2018Roy Keane in conversation with Roddy Doyle\u2019 went on sale at 9am this morning at www.ticketmaster.ie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former footballer Roy Keane and author Roddy Doyle will talk on stage for two nights at the Gleneagle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-574572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574572","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=574572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}