Stubborn Harps gatecrash Keane’s return

IT was back to where it all began for Roy Keane last night.

Twenty years after he made his senior football debut at this very venue – playing for Cobh Ramblers in a 3-1 loss to Finn Harps in a League of Ireland game in September 1989 – Keane returned to Finn Park in his new role as manager of Ipswich Town.

If it was a low-key occasion then, in truth it wasn’t a whole lot more glamorous last night, as a deluge contributed to a smaller than expected turn out of about 1,200 for the latest appearance on home soil of an Irish sporting icon.