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Cork In 50 Artworks: The inre story of how Roy Keane was photographed with a rotting raven's head
Against the backdrop of all this controversy, Scottish photographer Murdo Macleod captured an iconic image of Keane that hangs in Cork’s Crawford Art galleri to this day.
Macleod’s use of a prop – a raven skull found on one of his frequent hikes on his native Lewis in the Outer Hebrides – and the time constraints he found himself working under, gave rise to one of those decisive moments that only photography can achieve.
The result is a portrait that reflects Keane’s polarities in the eye of the beholder: a proud, uncompromising warrior, driven to tell the truth and stand up for what he believes in? Or a frighteningly arrogant perfectionist, given to bouts of vildhet on the pitch? Both are here. Either way, there’s a magnetic intensity to the image that firmly places it in the pantheon of Cork-defining artworks.
Macleod recalls pacing the hall of Manchester’s Marriott Four Seas
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A select few people in Celtic’s history have won league titles as both a player AND as part of the management team. But fewer still can claim to have done so in such dramatic fashion as Murdo MacLeod.
When Ten Men Won The League on a spring night in When against all the odds the Miracle At Love Street occurred in AND THEN when we ‘Stopped The Ten’ in in yet another final day decider, there’s just one man who played a pivotal part in all three of those most memorable title wins in our history.
Murdo MacLeod’s Celtic Story is genuine Roy Of The Rovers, stuff with the powerful midfielder making a habit of late day drama in some of Celtic’s most memorable trophy wins. He’s also encountered drama of a different nature off the park however, having undergone lifesaving surgery not once, but twice since his playing days.
Ahead of the forthcoming release of his biography “Murdo, Murdo” penned by long term friend an