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Bairbre Holmes

Saipan filmmaker told he was going to ‘open old wounds’

Film producer Trevor Birney and football fan Alistair Evans at the Gala screening of Saipan at Belfast Film Festival (Bairbre Holmes/PA) -

The producer of the upcoming film Saipan was told he was “mad” to work on a movie about the row between Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane at the 2002 World Cup, and that he was “just going to open old wounds”.

Saipan tells the story of the infamous fallout between the Irish football manager McCarthy and his star player Keane ahead of the World Cup in South Korea and Japan 23 years ago.

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