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Saipan: Roy Keane World Cup drama is a highly entertaining slice of Irish football history

In the summer of 2002, a dispute inside the Republic of Ireland’s football camp spiralled into a national controversy. Few sporting rows have lodged themselves in the Irish imagination as stubbornly as Keane v McCarthy in Saipan, culminating in Keane’s departure from the Irish World Cup squad.

The Conversation

What Keane and McCarthy’s absurd row in Saipan tells us about Irish identity and principles

WORLD CUP 2002: The new film dramatises a seminal moment in Irish footballing history, and Miguel Delaney details the lessons learned and how an undiscovered twist adds a new layer to one of the biggest controversies in Irish sporting history

The Independent UK

From Saipan to Take That: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Steve Coogan stars in a loose retelling of an infamous football falling-out, while a new Netflix doc gets nostalgic about the heyday of Gary Barlow and co

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Saipan: the story behind Roy Keane’s World Cup walkout on Ireland’s football team

Don’t make the mistake of thinking Saipan is a film about the brutal second world war battle on this small Pacific island. It is, in fact, the tale of a ridiculous and heartbreaking football bust-up that almost tore a country apart.

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Éanna Hardwicke: ‘A lot of TV fetishises people who do appalling things’

RISING STARS: The Irish rising star tells Tom Murray about playing one of football’s hardest men, Roy Keane, in ‘Saipan’, the perils of acting opposite one of his heroes, Steve Coogan, and the state of true crime TV

The Independent UK

‘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

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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?

The Guardian - UK

‘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

The Guardian - US

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

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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

The Independent UK

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 Guardian - 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

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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

The Independent UK

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

The Guardian - AU

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.

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