Michael Foley

What do you mean we have trouble figuring it out?

Well, it kind of hit me.

I was reading Dave Hannigan's book about Roy Keane there that came out recently.

We need to talk about Roy.

And I mean, for anyone who hasn't read that yet, it's a very interesting sort of... It kind of walks you through Keane's career and his life and...

in parallel with how Ireland has changed and how the world has changed around Keane and how the two are linked.

And I was reading this around the same time that Ronnie Delaney passed away.

And it just got me thinking about these are two absolute all-time greats.

But I would argue that even the fact that Dave wrote that book, we've never really got a handle on how Keane's mind works.

What drove him as a player, really?

I don't think we ever really got that.

And even if we kind of did, we were almost afraid to go too far into it to figure it out.

Ronnie Delaney was an all-time...

Great athlete, one of our greatest sports people of all time.

He came home after an injury when he retired and he was penniless after two years.

It wasn't like he was greeted like a returning hero.

He had to make his way.

And, you know, when I started thinking back through others like that, we struggle sometimes.

I think it's just part of our culture.

I think we find it hard to connect with them.