"I was taking a photograph when a group of people came walking down the street. They stopped to look at the mural and I asked them to keep moving because of the photos I was taking. Roy looked up from the camera viewfinder when he heard laughter - and found himself staring at the footballer legend whose image he had just painted."
"He came back about 30 minutes later and we got a photograph taken. He was very nice and said he liked the mural. While Roy had painted the former Manchester United captain with his trademark beard, the footballer was clean-shaven when he met him on Cook Street by the diner."
"The mural has since become a major attraction in Cork with people getting their photographs taken beside it. While he has produced celebrity paintings and murals before, he has never had such a reaction as that to his Roy Keane mural."
Dutch artist Roy Valk was photographing a mural he created of Roy Keane on a building facing Fat Phill's new restaurant on Cook Street in Cork when the footballer legend himself appeared and stopped to view the artwork. Initially, Valk asked the group to move along for his photos, but recognized Keane when he heard laughter and the footballer joked about not being recognized. Keane complimented the mural and returned 30 minutes later for a photograph together. The mural has become a major Cork attraction, with visitors regularly photographing themselves beside it. This encounter generated unprecedented public reaction compared to Valk's previous celebrity artwork.
Read at Irish Independent
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