Saipan 20 years on – Part IV: Ireland loses the run of itself as Roy goes walking the dog

Fifty-eight years before Roy Keane called Mick McCarthy a ‘c***,’ and a ‘w***er,’ the Battle of Saipan claimed the lives of 50,000 soldiers and civilians, including thousands of mass suicides sparked by Japanese misinformation about the barbarity of the invading Americans.
Or so we’ve been told by the victors, who tend to write history.

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