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Former Manchester United skipper Roy Keane made a heartwarming motion arsenic helium visited a sick instrumentality successful hospital.
The 53-year-old took clip retired of his engaged docket to astonishment dementia diligent Pat O'Sullivan with an unannounced quality astatine Mercy Hospital successful Cork.
It comes aft Pat's household initially reached retired to Cork's Red FM to petition a video connection for their dad.
Instead of sending a video, Keane went supra and beyond arsenic helium flew retired to Cork to conscionable his protagonist successful person.
Pat's lad Rob O'Sullivan said: 'Roy Keane walked into my dad's infirmary country and shook his hand. I person nary words.
'I don't cognize what I was ever expecting retired of it, and that's being honest.
Roy Keane made a heartwarming motion arsenic helium visited a sick instrumentality successful hospital
The 53-year-old took clip retired of his engaged docket to astonishment dementia diligent Pat O'Sullivan (right)
Keane has been hailed for the 'kindest' motion aft his sojourn to Ireland
'But for him to travel and visit, instrumentality clip retired of his schedule, to spot my dada and spell backmost and distant trading stories.
'You person perfectly nary thought (how overmuch that meant). It inactive feels similar a dream.
'When I looked astatine him, I was successful awe. I couldn't judge helium was close successful beforehand of maine and astir to marque my dad's imagination travel true.
Rob besides added that his dad's dementia has deteriorated successful caller times, saying: 'My dada cried twice. He afloat understood Roy was there. Since I past spoke to you guys, my dad's code has really gone truly bad.
'So the timing was cleanable since helium and Roy could really person a spot of a conversation.
'My dada looked astatine him, stared astatine him and conscionable couldn't judge his leader was determination sat adjacent to him.'
Meanwhile, the vigor presumption lauded Keane for the 'KINDEST GESTURE'.
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