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Keane also wrote three national No.1 best-sellers on the Italian saint Padre Pio – Padre Pio: The Irish Connection, Padre Pio: The Scent of Roses and Padre Pio: Irish Encounters with the Saint. He published a further No.1 bestseller, co-authored with Una O'Hagan, titled The Little Flower, St. Thérèse of Lisieux: The Irish Connection.

In 2008, Keane set up the publishing company Capel Island Press. The company's first book was written by Colm and called The Beatles Irish Concerts. Since its inception, Capel Island Press has published six No.1 best-sellers.

Married to former RTÉ newsreader Úna O'Hagan, the couple's only son Seán Keane died in 2007. Together, they collaborated on the best-selling book Animal Crackers: Irish Pet Stories, published in June 2016. Their most recent co-written book is The Village of Bernadette: Lourdes, Stories, Miracles and Cures - The Irish Connection, published in September 2019.

Retiring from broadcasting in 2003, Keane embarked on a career as a full-time author. He was responsible for the Irish national best-sellers Going Home (No.1), We'll Meet Again (No.1), Heading for the Light (No.1), The Distant Shore and Forewarned. Most of the content of these books was based on research with survivors of near-death experiences.

In the early 1980s, Keane moved to RTÉ Radio 1, where he worked as a reporter, presenter, producer and series producer. He won a Jacob's Award in 1988 for American Profiles, which featured a visit to a prison death row in Texas, a profile of an Auschwitz survivor living in New York and a feature documentary on NASA astronaut James Irwin.

Keane joined the Irish national broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, in 1977, where he initially worked as a television journalist. He co-presented the weekly investigative series Public Account with Pat Kenny, and he worked as a reporter on the current affairs programme Today Tonight. While in television, Keane won a Glaxo Fellowship for European Science Writers for his scripting and presentation of the science series A Future in Mind.

Keane was born in Youghal, County Cork, in 1951. He attended Trinity College Dublin, where he graduated with a B.A. Mod., M.A. in Economics and Political Science. Further postgraduate studies were undertaken at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., where he received an M.A. in Economics.