Kieran Shannon: Cork may have made Roy Keane but Dublin shaped him too
Roy Keane
There are many striking scenes in Eoin O’Callaghan’s often-fascinating book, , but a particularly vivid one is when an 18-year-old Roy is taking the Monday train from Cork to Dublin, where he’s undergoing a year-long full-time FÁS course.
Jamie Cullimore, a classmate as well as a teammate of Keane’s with Cobh Ramblers, is on the same train when they pass a load of workers on the side of the railway tracks. Keane, who didn’t even pass his Junior Cert, or Inter Cert as it was known then as, remarks, “Look at them [poor] f**kers out there and they’re going like the hammers. I HAVE to make it as a footballer.”
