Tommy Tiernan was not having Roy Keane answer during his interview

As the father of six children, Tommy didn’t have that answer from Roy!

Tommy Tiernan met up with Roy Keane for a pow-wow and many Saturday night viewers switched to RTE to see how it all played out. Along with some tense moments and Keane looks, Tiernan got a few nuggets from the former Manchester United and Ireland captain.

Time not everyone fell in love with the interviewon The Tommy Tiernan Show, some reveled in what, at times, seemed more like a battle of wills than a chat between two popular public figures.

There were a couple of times when Tiernan’s questions and admissions made Keane drop his guard, especially when he talked about Cork, nights out in Manchester, and early courtship of his wife, Theresa.

On the couple’s first date, Keane admitted that he had been wrong not to have much to say. “It was very bad for me,” he said.

“We met, I picked her up and met her [before] when I had a few drinks, so the conversation was a bit different. We went for a walk and I said: Do you feel like going to the cinema?because at least in the photos you can only see the movie, you don’t have to chat too much!

“And she said ‘No, I went last night with my friends’. And I said ‘Do you want to go have a drink?’. She said, ‘Not’.

“So I drove back to his car, and this was all in the space of…