More than 20 years later, controversy still rages around the dispute between Keane and McCarthy, who disagreed about strategy, training conditions and travel arrangements. McCarthy ultimately sent Keane home, announcing that he would not be playing in the tournament. READ MOREMick McCarthy will be played by Steve Coogan. “I’ve basically had enough of certain things,” Keane told The Irish Times in a famously fiery interview. The actor, like Keane a son of Cork, made his screen debut, 15 years ago, as a juvenile, in Conor McPherson’s The Eclipse.
