Glanmire’s Éanna set to star as Roy Keane in ‘Saipan’

Glanmire actor, Éanna Hardwicke is set to star as Roy Keane in ‘Saipan’, a new Irish feature film shooting this summer.

Starring alongside Steve Coogan as Mick McCarthy, ‘Saipan’ is a new film about the events leading up to Ireland’s incendiary 2002 World Cup Campaign.

BAFTA-nominated Cork native Éanna Hardwicke (‘Lakelands’, ‘The Sixth Commandment’) will play Ireland football captain Roy Keane, with two-time Oscar nominee Steve Coogan (‘Philomena’, ‘The Reckoning’) cast as the Ireland manager Mick McCarthy.

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