Roy Keane: The best place for me to learn is back in the hot-seat

It was classic Roy Keane delivery — present a situation in an incredulous tone and then go off in a different direction with a quick-witted answer.

“I was asked who put my bins out,” he said, illustrating how modern-day footballers rarely do anything for themselves. “I told them the wife did it,” he deadpanned, as the audience at the Clarion Hotel cracked up, one of many occasions they did so at the Bord Gáis Energy ‘Winning in Business’ event yesterday morning.

Keane regularly entertained during the panel discussion with RTÉ’s Conor Brophy, also featuring Dónal Óg Cusack and Fiona Coghlan. At one stage, Brophy enquired if a phone going off angered Keane, prompting the quick but sheepish response that it was actually the Mayfield native receiving the call.