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Rory McIlroy and Roy Keane<\/p>\nThe former Manchester United midfielder had little sympathy for Europe’s Ryder Cup hero<\/p>\n
13:13, 16 Oct 2025Updated 13:13, 16 Oct 2025<\/p>\n
Rory McIlroy and Roy Keane<\/p>\n
Roy Keane has little sympathy for Rory McIlroy after the Holywood man was subjected to vile heckling by the US crowd at last month’s Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n
McIlroy had abuse hurled at himself and his wife Erica <\/a>all weekend long, with the grand-slam winner forced to ask security to remove unruly fans from the course on numerous occasions.<\/p>\n Erica was even hit by a cup of beer<\/a> on the Saturday at Bethpage Black as Europe celebrated their foursome success that left them on the brink of victory.<\/p>\n Speaking after the event, McIlroy<\/a>, who clapped back at fans and swore at the crowd during the event, called for golf to be held to a higher standard<\/a> and criticised the behaviour of fans.<\/p>\n The disrespect shown by the fans in New York has been a major talking point in golf over the last three weeks, with two of the US PGA’s top executives apologising for the home fans’ behaviour.<\/p>\n When the topic was broached on the Stick To Football podcast this week, former Manchester United<\/a> midfielder Keane <\/a>couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about, and believes that if McIlroy and other golfer’s want to see real fan abuse, they should just take a look at soccer stars and what they have to put up with.<\/p>\n “So, you tell me. I’m no expert in golf – I don’t play but I watch the sport,” began Keane.<\/p>\n “You’re saying the pressure on these players because some people were shouting? Become a footballer and go to Leeds or Anfield on a Tuesday night, let me tell you.<\/p>\n “These guys play in big tournaments every week. All of a sudden, they’re going to be upset by a few Yanks?<\/p>\n “You’ve got McIlroy, McIlroy’s won all the big prizes. Do you think he’s going to be upset by a few people? It’s ridiculous!”<\/p>\n And on the abuse, Keane said it shouldn’t have been a factor as the players were ready for it.<\/p>\n He added: “Of course they [knew abuse was coming]. They’ve built it up for the last six months, ‘Wait til you come to America.’ Of course they knew they were going to get abused!”<\/p>\n McIlroy once appeared on Stick to Football alongside Keane and recalled how the ex-United captain once turned down his request for an autograph as a child.<\/p>\n With that clearly still in his head, Keane couldn’t resist one last pop at the European star.<\/p>\n “He shouldn’t be swearing either, should he?” Keane jabbed<\/p>\n “I didn’t see him signing autographs after, by the way! All those little kids waiting for him!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Manchester United midfielder had little sympathy for Europe’s Ryder Cup hero 13:13, 16 Oct 2025Updated 13:13,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,1394,271,112],"class_list":["post-85676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-roy-keane","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85676","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=85676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Rory](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0_mcilroy-keanr.png\")
Rory McIlroy, Roy Keane and Ian Wright.(Image: The Overlap X)<\/p>\n![\"Rory](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0_Erica-Stoll-and-Rory-McIlroy-at-the-Ryder-Cup.jpg\")
Erica Stoll and Rory McIlroy at the Ryder Cup.(Image: (David Cannon\/Getty Images))<\/p>\n