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‘The emotion you get from the game is insane’: the Roy Keane bust-up film leading a new type of football movie

Saipan, about Keane’s infamous World Cup row with manager Mick McCarthy, has become a hit film in its native Ireland – as it opens in the UK screenwriter Paul Fraser explains how he aimed to avoid the mistakes of the past

The Guardian - UK

Saipan review – Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy’s epic spat becomes amusing state-of-the-nation psychodrama

Éanna Hardwick and Steve Coogan star as furious Keane and his luckless manager McCarthy in this retelling of the Man Utd star’s infamous 2002 walkout

The Guardian - UK

Beyond Keane’s stick-it-up-your-bollocks, there isn’t much else to Saipan

Why is the film of Ireland’s 2002 World Cup falling-out not a documentary but a drama that takes liberties with events?

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‘We are no longer apologising’: Éanna Hardwicke on Ireland’s cultural confidence and what it’s like to play Roy Keane

Currently on stage in a play that provoked riots, the rising Irish actor is also stepping into Keane’s boots to replay a notorious footballing feud. But, he says, his country feels more empowered than ever before

The Guardian - UK

An Ireland apart: How Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy's Saipan fallout went box office

Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy produced one of football’s most dramatic stories when they ripped into each other in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in 2002 – now the saga is being retold in a new movie that hits the cinemas in January

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

The producer of the movie Saipan was told he was ‘mad’ to work on a film about the Irish team at the 2002 World Cup.

Evening Standard

Saipan review – football scandal makes for thrilling big-screen drama

Steve Coogan and a knockout Éanna Hardwicke take on Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane in this involving workplace drama about a 2002 tabloid storm

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Saipan film to reopen old wounds between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy ultras

Drama-biopic starring Steve Coogan will reignite a row that split Irish football fans but there are good signs for its artistic merit

The Guardian - UK

Can Steve Coogan solve a feud that has gripped Irish football for decades?

In today’s Football Daily: get ready for the film adaptation of events in Saipan

The Guardian - UK

Roy Keane's infamous World Cup 2002 fallout with Mick McCarthy to be turned into a film

'Saipan' will focus on the training camp dispute that led to Ireland's captain walking away from the 2002 World Cup squad

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Steve Coogan to play ex-Ireland boss Mick McCarthy in film about Roy Keane bust-up

‘Saipan’ will tell the story of Keane’s departure, with the Alan Partridge star confirmed in the role of McCarthy

The Independent UK

Saipan, placid island setting for Assange's last battle, is briefly mobbed — and bemused by the fuss

Saipan is a relaxed, rural island in the Northern Marianas

The Independent UK

‘I don’t know who Assange is’: global media circus bemuses sleepy Saipan

The tiny US Pacific territory is not used to the spotlight – but all that changed with the WikiLeaks founder’s arrival

The Guardian - UK

Julian Assange’s wife overcome with emotion as he returns to Australia a free man after US plea deal

Stella Assange was speaking after her husband landed in the Australian capital of Canberra following a six-hour flight from the island of Saipan, where he pleaded guilty to one charge at a US court under a plea deal which sets him free

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Watch as Julian Assange lands in Australia after walking free in US plea deal

Watch as Julian Assange lands in Australia after walking free on Wednesday 26 June from a court on the US Pacific island territory of Saipan after pleading guilty to violating US espionage law, in a deal that allowed him to head straight home.

The Conversation

Julian Assange is free, but curly legal questions about his case remain

Today Julian Assange walked out of the Federal Court Building in Saipan, North Marianas Islands, a free man. He pleaded guilty to one count of breaching the US Espionage Act.

The Guardian - AU

Julian Assange walks free after pleading guilty to US espionage charge in Saipan court

US plea deal allows WikiLeaks founder to return to Australia after an extraordinary legal fight spanning more than a decade

The Guardian - AU

‘This case ends with me’: inside the Saipan court as Julian Assange’s legal saga comes to an end

The WikiLeaks founder was emotional as the final sentence was handed down, ending his extraordinary journey

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Julian Assange: Stella Assange says WikiLeaks founder needs time to ‘let our family be a family’ before speaking publicly – as it happened

Stella Assange says husband needs time to recuperate after arriving in Australia following plea deal with US

Al Jazeera

WikiLeaks’s Assange arrives in Australia following release on US plea deal

The WikiLeaks founder has landed in his home country following a 14-year legal ordeal.

The Independent UK

Julian Assange walks free after making deal with US to plead guilty in remote Pacific island court

Sentencing ends more than a decade of legal struggles between US government and an activist once condemned by Joe Biden as ‘closer to a high-tech terrorist’

The Guardian - AU

Politicians warned against taking advantage of Qantas compensation payments – as it happened

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Evening Standard

Julian Assange flies to the remote Pacific island of Saipan: where is it and what's next?

The WikiLeaks founder has been released from Belmarsh Prison in London — but why is going to an island famous for its role in the Second World War?

The Independent UK

The tourist island known for sandy beaches that will host the final act of Julian Assange’s legal odyssey

It is the only part of the United States that Chinese citizens can enter without a visa

Al Jazeera

Julian Assange freed: What’s the deal the WikiLeaks founder struck with US?

Assange will plead guilty to one espionage charge in a US court in Saipan, before returning home to Australia.

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