Saipan is a 2025 sports film about the Republic of Ireland national football team and the eponymous Saipan incident between player Roy Keane and manager Mick McCarthy in the lead up to the 2002 …

Saipan: Directed by Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn. With Éanna Hardwicke, Steve Coogan, Peter McDonald, Alice Lowe. On the eve of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the Irish captain Roy Keane forfeits …

Jan 5, 2026 · Coogan stars as football boss Mick McCarthy in the film Saipan, about the fall-out between him and captain Roy Keane.

Jan 2, 2026 · It's back. The infamous Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane volcanic relationship is revisited in all its grubby glory in the movie Saipan.

Jan 3, 2026 · Singer-songwriter Andy White once anointed James Joyce as the keeper and crucifier of his country’s conscience, but even Joyce might accept that Roy Keane inherited that particular …

Jul 29, 2024 · Éanna Hardwicke will play Roy Keane and Steve Coogan is set to play Mick McCarthy in upcoming Irish feature film 'Saipan', which depicts the infamous World Cup fallout of 2002.

Dec 25, 2025 · The final phone-call interaction between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy (though fictionalised) is brilliantly acted by both Hardwicke and Coogan The tunes are superb throughout.

Oct 18, 2025 · A fresh teaser clip for Saipan has also been unveiled, featuring Co Cork actor Éanna Hardwicke stepping into the role of Roy Keane - squaring off against Alan Partridge star Steve …

Oct 17, 2025 · Dreams of what might have been at 2002 World Cup still as vivid as day the Cork man stormed out Steve Coogan, as Mick McCarthy, and Éanna Hardwicke, as Roy Keane, in Saipan. …

Oct 30, 2024 · The first look of Éanna Hardwicke as Manchester United and Ireland soccer legend Roy Keane alongside Steve Coogan as his embattled Irish national manager Mick McCarthy, has been …