{"id":197770,"date":"2025-11-24T15:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/197770\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:18:11","slug":"roy-keane-and-roddy-doyle-announce-may-2026-shows-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/197770\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle announce May 2026 shows \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/roy-keane\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/roy-keane\/\">Roy Keane<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/roddy-doyle\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/roddy-doyle\/\">Roddy Doyle<\/a> have announced they will bring their In Conversation show to Dublin and Belfast next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They will host two shows in Belfast\u2019s SSE Arena on Thursday, May 7th, with a third show at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/3arena\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/3arena\/\" target=\"_blank\">3Arena<\/a> on Friday, May 8th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Fan presale for the shows will open at 9am on Wednesday, November 26th, and will close at 8am on Friday, November 28th. Tickets will then go on general sale on Friday, November 28th, at 9am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">TV football pundit and former footballer Keane and novelist Doyle previously collaborated on the 2014 bestselling memoir The Second Half. \u201cDoyle successfully draws Keane out to engage in spheres of retrospection that he may have previously been reluctant to delve into in public,\u201d Dermot Bolger wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/revelations-lacking-in-the-latest-helping-of-keano-the-second-half-1.1965974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/revelations-lacking-in-the-latest-helping-of-keano-the-second-half-1.1965974\">his review of the book<\/a> for this newspaper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The pair also performed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-style\/people\/review\/2025\/07\/09\/roy-keane-live-at-the-marquee-i-think-paul-mcgrath-could-kill-the-pope-and-theyd-say-the-pope-deserved-it\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-style\/people\/review\/2025\/07\/09\/roy-keane-live-at-the-marquee-i-think-paul-mcgrath-could-kill-the-pope-and-theyd-say-the-pope-deserved-it\/\">three Live at the Marquee shows in Cork<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The shows in Belfast and Dublin will come after the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/film\/review\/2025\/10\/17\/saipan-the-movie-roy-keane-mick-mccarthy-flashbacks-too-much-for-this-traumatised-fan\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/film\/review\/2025\/10\/17\/saipan-the-movie-roy-keane-mick-mccarthy-flashbacks-too-much-for-this-traumatised-fan\/\">Saipan<\/a>, a film which charts the relationship between formr Republic of Ireland midfielder Keane and manager Mick McCarthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle have announced they will bring their In Conversation show to Dublin and Belfast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[663,52,18,117,19,17,20,58910,5788],"class_list":{"0":"post-197770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-manchester-united","15":"tag-roddy-doyle","16":"tag-roy-keane"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115605347141216394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}