Heartbreaker Richie Towell hoping to catch Roy Keane's eye for Euro place

Roy Keane had a word with PFAI Player of the Year Richie Towell at the awards ceremony in Dublin last Friday. Well, a word or two actually.

“He just said ‘you’ve had a great season’ and then he told me I broke his heart in the FAI Cup final by scoring the winner because he’s a Cork fan,” the Dundalk man relates with a grin.

But could the League of Ireland’s best player yet help mend Keano’s broken heart this summer? Towell, who yesterday created a new record by picking up his third SSE Airtricity/Soccer Writers’ Player of the Month award in a year, is on the brink of tying up a move to England which, if all goes according to plan — or better — could give him a chance to catch Martin O’Neill’s eye and gatecrash the Irish squad for next summer’s Euro 2016 finals in France.