Martin O’Neill hopes ‘tough to handle’ Roy Keane will join him at Nottingham Forest

Martin O’Neill wants to bring the “tough to handle” Roy Keane with him to Nottingham Forest, and claimed that Ireland would never have qualified for the 2016 European Championships without his former assistant.

O’Neill, speaking to the media for the first time since his appointment as manager of the club he won two European Cups with as a player, expressed his desire to reunite the coaching team that took charge of the Republic of Ireland team for four-and-a-half years, despite the friction between Keane and a number of Irish players that coloured the latter days of his reign.