Jovial Roy Keane insists he knows when to say sorry

The succession of questions about his round of apologies to the players criticised last week got on his goat now and then, but it was a mostly jovial Roy Keane who held court with the media in Dublin ahead of the squad’s departure today for France.

Subsequent news that Keane and Martin O’Neill had inked new contracts with the FAI painted a clearer insight into his mood and thoughts when he was asked if the likes of Aiden McGeady, Jeff Hendrick and Daryl Murphy had accepted his apologies and moved swiftly on.

“Yeah, I suppose so,” he said. “I usually have my hands around their throats when I’m doing it so…”