From The Guardian:
'It was a conflict that tore Irish families apart and plunged the nation into civil war. No, not the 1921 partitioning of Ireland, but the Roy Keane/Mick McCarthy spat at the last World Cup.
From next month the battle will be immortalised on stage in I-Keano, a show set in Ancient Rome where the earnest but stubborn general Macartacus falls out with his greatest warrior Keano.
Like the World Cup spat in Saipan that saw Keane storm home, the action takes place on an island where Keano finds that the ground is too hard, the troops are partying and the Federation has forgotten to bring daggers and tunics for his legion. And just as the Manchester United midfielder was said to be influenced by journalist and former Millwall player Eamon Dunphy, in the play Keano is advised by a tap-dancing wood nymph called Dunphia.
The play begins at Dublin's Olympia Theatre on 8 February, 24 hours before a friendly international between Ireland and Portugal at Landsdowne Road.'
Originally the play was to be called Macartacus but that was changed because the writers confessed 'more people around the world know who Roy Keane is'.
So even now McCarthy plays second best to Keane.