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Handy Info
Finding AccommodationAccommodation is pretty scarce during
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Venues
1. Watergate Theatre
2. Cleere’s
3. Zoo
4. Club 51 at the Kilford Arms Hotel
5. Langton’s
6. The Rivercourt Hotel
7. Left Bank
8. The Parade Tower at Kilkenny Castle
9. The Clubhouse Hotel
10. The Ormonde Hotel (Kings Suite and Kilbride Suite)
11. The Village Inn
12. Hotel Kilkenny (Orchard Suite and the Skyline)
13. Kyteler’s Inn
Dean St.
Parliament St.
James St.
Chapel Lane
High St.
Kieran St.
Friary St.
Ormonde St.
River Nore
John S
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Michael St.
The Parade
Patrick St.
College Road
To Athy
To Dublin
To Waterford
To New Ross
To Clonmel
Railway Station
The Fairgreen
TICKET OFFICE
Kilkenny Castle
Although he’s from New York,
Des has spent most of his life
in Ireland. His charismatic star
quality and unique observations
on Irish society have been
captured on five DVDs including
the IFTA award winning In the
Name of the Fada. He can also
speak Irish better than most
Irish people.
In true Liverpudlian style John is
a master storyteller, recreating
the atmosphere of kicking back
with your mates down the pub.
He won Best Stand Up in the
2004 North West Comedy Awards
and in 1992 cycled around the
world just for the hell of it.
Lewis hails from Washington
D.C.; his passionate rants on
the vagaries of contemporary
life have earned him numerous
awards including a Best Comedy
Album Grammy for The Carnegie
Hall Performance. He lives in New
York because it’s loud enough to
drown out the stuff going on in
his head.
All the way from Queens, New
York, Alonzo describes his material
as “cynically good-natured in an
angry suburban Negro kind of
way”. He won the third series of
Last Comic Standing and he was
the voice of Thunderon in the
Power Rangers TV series.
Massachusetts born and bred,
Bill’s comedy is raw, intense and
genuine. He has an hour-long
comedy special titled Why Do I Do
This? and his voice is featured in
Grand Theft Auto IV.
Jason grew up in Ballinteer,
Dublin. Boundless energy and
unpredictable spontaneity are the
hallmarks of his inspired chaotic
comedy. He won the 2007 Chortle
Best Headliner Award, has sold
more tickets than any other
comedian in the history of the
Edinburgh Fringe, has just released
The Byrne Identity on DVD and used
to work in a lighting warehouse
with PJ Gallagher.
Des Bishop
Alonzo Bodden
Lewis Black
Jason Byrne
John Bishop
Bill Burr
Festival Debut
Alun is a laidback, whimsical
Yorkshireman, a genuine,
educated, natural-born storyteller
who thinks the world is a bit
wonky. He’s been nominated for
a Perrier Best Newcomer award
and Chortle’s Best Compère and
Best Break-through Act. He owns
a shed and would rather make
a good chicken stock than go
bungee jumping.
Santry born Ian tells great stories,
writes great gags and is a world-
class improviser. He’s a founding
member of the Dublin Comedy
Improv and was one half of the
legendary sketch combo Fat
Man’s Picnic Basket (he was the
one not called Paddy Hickey).
Otis is a redneck jailbird from
Tennessee. This Perrier Award
winner writes Tom Waitsian tunes
and blends this with audience
banter, producing a perfect fusion
of music and comedy. He was
discovered, some say created,
by Rich Hall in 1998.
Neil’s from Edenderry. A regular
on BBC’s The Blame Game and
RTE’s The Panel, Neil’s comedy
is wickedly wry and always
intelligent. He’s also the voice
of the little green man on the
Lotto ads.
Swordsman Brendan (he’s
from Swords, he’s not a man
with a sword) has moved to
London. His easy confidence
and intelligent wit make him a
leading international improviser.
Actor, writer, director, comedian;
this multi-talented comic has
performed all over from Montreal
to Melbourne and Edinburgh to
South East Asia.
Derek is Canadian. His dry
polished style won him Best Male
Stand Up in the Canadian Comedy
Awards and he’s just finished his
own one-hour special for
The Comedy Network.
Ian CoppingerAlun Cochrane
Neil Delamere
Otis Lee Crenshaw
Derek EdwardsBrendan Dempsey
Festival Debut
Greg Giraldo
A native of Tasmania, Hannah
won the 2007 Best Comedy
Show from an Emerging Artist at
the Adelaide Fringe Festival with
the fabulously self-deprecating
Wrong and Broken. She keeps
chickens in her backyard (not a
euphemism) and her feet get hot
when she’s nervous.
PJ is from somewhere in Ireland.
His visceral honest comedy and
raw engaging style is infectiously
funny. He has just released his first
ever DVD Take After Yourself and
Be Smile and in 2008 travelled to
America where his alter ego Jake
Stevens tried to annoy Erik Estrada
(from C.H.I.P.s) into throwing him
out of his house; it took two hours.
Rhod is Welsh. His stylishly
hangdog performances have
won him the 2008 Time Out
Breakthrough Act, a 2008
if.comedy nomination and a
spot on last year’s Royal Variety
Performance. He is the first
comedian ever to play Taiwan
and yes – he’s the guy in the Visit
Wales television ads.
Greg lives in New York and has
a law degree from Harvard. He’s
provocative and intelligent and
he once reached number four in
the Australian music charts with
a song called Underwear Goes
Inside The Pants.
Originally from Staffordshire,
Dave’s stand up is conversational,
intelligent and engaging. He’s
won two BAFTAs and his show
Are you Dave Gorman? has
toured the world and spent three
months off Broadway where it
was named Comedy Show of the
Year by Time Out New York.
Ricky is not your typical East
Ender. This huge ex-boxer, ex-
hairdresser with his permanently
bemused take on life is an award-
winning writer who was illiterate
until his early thirties.
Hannah Gadsby PJ Gallagher
Dave Gorman
Rhod Gilbert
Ricky Grover
Festival Debut
Festival Debut
Festival Debut
Rich comes from Virginia; his
grouchy, deadpan exterior belies
a grouchy, deadpan interior. He
is a Perrier Award winner and
he was once a hurricane namer
for United States Meteorological
Service where, presumably, he
named hurricanes.
Maeve is from Cobh. Her
delightful naïve-country-girl-
with-street-smarts-to-burn is
charming, engaging and very,
very funny. Maeve rose to an
uncomfortable level of notoriety
with RTE’s Naked Camera. She
doesn’t like being famous but
she loves cats.
All the way form Sydney,
Australia, Adam’s performances
are warm, spontaneous, uplifting
and inclusive; it’s kinda like your
best mate just got onstage, if your
best mate had ten international
solo shows under his belt, three
nominations for the Perrier Award
and won GQ Magazine’s 2007 TV
Personality of the Year.
Philly born Dom’s roguish
engaging style has made him one
of the festival’s longest standing
comedians. He has two Emmys
(he won them, we don’t want
to imply he just picked them up
somewhere) and has appeared in
everything from Seinfeld to The
Big Lebowski.
Australia adopted this Belfast
man in 1988. Jimeoin started
out as a gardener but quickly got
into stand-up where his witty
observations on the absurdities
of everyday life have made him a
household name. He also wrote
and starred in The Craic, a film
that won the 1999 Australian
Movie of the Year Award.
Milton is from London. He
tells jokes; surreal, hilarious,
repeatable one-liners. A Perrier,
Sony and Time Out awards
winner, he has most recently
been nominated for the Chortle
2009 Best Headliner Award and
is officially known as Britain’s
Funniest Milton.
Maeve Higgins
Dom Irrera Milton Jones
Adam Hills
Jimeoin
Rich Hall
Langtons
Kings Suite at KK Ormonde
Kilbride at KK Ormonde
Rivercourt
6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm Midnight
Jason Byrne, Lewis Black, Kathleen Madigan, Dom Irrera €24 90mins
Des Bishop, Alonzo Bodden, John Mulaney, Hannah Gadsby €24 90mins
Neil Delamere, Rich Hall, Derek Edwards, Shane Mauss €24 90mins
Ross Noble, Adam Hills, Bill Burr, Greg Giraldo €24 90mins
Thurs 28th May
Fri 29th May
Langtons
Zoo
6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm Midnight
Tommy Tiernan, Ricky Grover, Derek Edwards, Ian Coppinger €28 90mins
Andrew Maxwell, Hannah Gadsby, Dave Gorman €23 75mins
Neil Delamere, John Bishop, Bill Burr, Paddy Courtney €28 90mins
Festival PlannerTickets 056 7763837www.carlsbergcatlaughs.com
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Fri 29th May
Kilbride at KK Ormonde
Clubhouse Hotel
Kings Suite at KK Ormonde
Rivercourt
Kytelers
Watergate
Village Inn
Club 51 at Kilford Arms
6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm Midnight
Jason Byrne, Alonzo Bodden, Russell Kane, Barry Murphy €28 90mins
Comedy Cats €19 90mins
PJ Gallagher, Lewis Black, Alun Cochrane, Brendan Dempsey €28 90mins
Colin Murphy, Rich Hall, Rhod Gilbert, Jimeoin €28 90mins
Adam Hills, Lee Mack, Greg Giraldo, Fred MacAulay €28 90mins
Jarlath Regan, John Mulaney, Sarah Millican €23 75mins
Ross Noble, Kathleen Madigan, Andrew Lawrence, Bernard O’Shea €28 90mins
David O’Doherty, Maeve Higgins, Dom Irrera, Damian Clark €28 90mins
Des Bishop, Shane Mauss, Jon Richardson, John Colleary €28 90mins
The Cat Laughs International Improv €23 90mins
6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm Midnight
Sat 30th May
Kilbride at KK Ormonde
Kytelers
Orchard at Hotel Kilkenny
6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm Midnight
Des Bishop, Jon Richardson, Ricky Grover, Fred Cooke €29 90mins
Andrew Maxwell, Lewis Black, Andrew Lawrence, Bill Burr €29 90mins
Neil Delamere, Lee Mack, Hannah Gadsby, Damian Clark €29 90mins
Tommy Tiernan, Greg Giraldo, Sarah Millican, John Henderson €29 90mins
Colin Murphy, John Mulaney, Russell Kane, Ricky Grover €29 90mins
Colin Murphy, Kathleen Madigan, Milton Jones, Barry Murphy €29 90mins
Neil Delamere, Rhod Gilbert, Bill Burr, Damian Clark €29 90mins
Otis Lee Crenshaw €24 60mins
Sun 31st May
Kytelers
Kilbride at KK Ormonde
Skyline at Hotel Kilkenny
6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm Midnight
Rhod Gilbert, Jimeoin, John Mulaney, John Colleary €29 90mins
Tommy Tiernan, John Bishop, Shane Mauss, Fred Cooke €29 90mins
Neil Delamere, Russell Kane, Kathleen Madigan, Brendan Dempsey €29 90mins
Ross Noble, Alun Cochrane, John Mulaney, Paddy Courtney €29 90mins
Otis Lee Crenshaw €24 60mins
Ross Noble, Milton Jones, Hannah Gadsby, Bernard O’Shea €29 90mins
Sat 30th May
Kings Suite at KK Ormonde
Langtons
Zoo
Club 51 at Kilford Arms
Clubhouse Hotel
Rivercourt
Village Inn
Cleeres
Watergate
6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm Midnight
Tommy Tiernan, Dave Gorman, Shane Mauss, John Colleary €29 90mins
PJ Gallagher, Alonzo Bodden, Adam Hills, Bernard O’Shea €29 90mins
Karl Spain, Dom Irrera, John Mulaney, John Lynn €29 90mins
Comedy Cats €22 90mins
Ardal O’Hanlon, John Bishop, Kathleen Madigan, Fred MacAulay €29 90mins
Ardal O’Hanlon, Hannah Gadsby, Eric Lalor €28 75mins
Maeve Higgins, Alun Cochrane, Aidan Bishop €28 75mins
Jarlath Regan, Jimeoin, Milton Jones €28 75mins
Jason Byrne, Shane Mauss, Sarah Millican, Andrew Stanley €29 90mins
PJ Gallagher, Russell Kane, Alonzo Bodden, Rhod Gilbert €29 90mins
Comedy Cats €22 90mins Comedy Cats €22 90mins
The Cat Laughs International Improv €26 90mins
Dead Cat Bounce €23 60mins
Adam & Jason Spotlight on ... Hans Teeuwen €28 75mins
Rich Hall, David O’Doherty, John Bishop, Alun Cochrane €29 90mins
David O’Doherty, Derek Edwards, Jimeoin €28 75mins The Dark Show €28 75mins
Ross Noble, Lewis Black, Karl Spain, Fred MacAulay €29 90mins
6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm Midnight
Sun 31st May6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm Midnight
Rivercourt
Kings Suite at KK Ormonde
Langtons
Orchard at Hotel Kilkenny
Village Inn
Zoo
Clubhouse Hotel
Club 51 at Kilford Arms
Cleeres
Watergate
Colin Murphy, Alonzo Bodden, Maeve Higgins, Fred MacAulay €29 90mins
Ardal O’Hanlon, Rich Hall, Lee Mack, Jarlath Regan €29 90mins
Adam Hills, Greg Giraldo, Jon Richardson, Ian Coppinger €29 90mins
The Cat Laughs International Improv €26 90mins
Comedy Cats €22 90mins Comedy Cats €22 90mins
Des Bishop, Lee Mack, Bill Burr, Aidan Bishop €29 90mins
Comedy Cats €22 90mins
David O’Doherty, Kathleen Madigan, Milton Jones, Bernard O’Shea €29 90mins
Adam & Jason Spotlight on ... Hans Teeuwen €28 75mins
Lewis Black, Alun Cochrane, John Henderson €28 75mins
Dom Irrera, Sarah Millican, Dermot Whelan €28 75mins
Andrew Maxwell, John Bishop, Dom Irrera €28 75mins
Jarlath Regan, Hannah Gadsby, Barry Murphy €28 75mins
Dead Cat Bounce €23 60mins
The Dark Show €28 75mins
Messin’ with... YouTube €23 60mins
Colin Murphy, Rhod Gilbert, Shane Mauss, Damian Clark €29 90mins
PJ Gallagher, Ardal O’Hanlon, Lewis Black, Sarah Millican €29 90mins
PJ Gallagher, Bill Burr, Russell Kane, John Colleary €29 90mins
Tommy Tiernan, Alonzo Bodden, Jon Richardson, Andrew Stanley €29 90mins
Des Bishop, Dave Gorman, Karl Spain, Damian Clark €29 90mins
6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm Midnight
Mon 1st June
Langtons
Kings Suite at KK Ormonde
6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm Midnight
Des Bishop, Neil Delamere, Maeve Higgins John Bishop, Adam Hills €25 105mins G’Nite Cats €39 Till late!
Jason Byrne, Lee Mack, PJ Gallagher, Jimeoin, David O’Doherty €25 105mins
Fred MacAulay
Russell hails from Middlesex. His
effervescent, engaging style has
seen him twice nominated for the
if.comedy awards and in 2007 he
hosted Channel 4’s Big Brother’s
Big Mouth.
This fiery-haired Londoner’s
demonic persona spews a grizzly
repertoire of festering comic
negativity that was the talk of
last year’s Dark Show. He was
nominated for the if.comedy
Best Newcomer 2006 and Best
Comedian 2007 and is definitely
not for the faint hearted.
Born in the Royal Perth Infirmary
(Scotland not Australia) Fred
observes life from the perspective
of a twenty-year-old middle-aged
man. He is witty, charming and one
of the best all round comedians
you’re ever likely to see.
Lee comes from Blackburn. This
infectiously mischievous, subtly
sophisticated all round comedian
wrote and starred in BBC1’s Not
Going Out and was also once a
bluecoat in Pontin’s holiday camp.
Originally from Missouri,
Kathleen’s cynical, unpretentious
style made her CD/DVD one of the
most downloaded comedy albums
of 2007. She is one of the judges
on Last Comic Standing and is
the only 5’ 2’’ Mid-Missouri Hoop
Shoot Champion in
recorded history.
Born and raised in Wisconsin,
Shane’s ambling tone
counterpoints his keen sense
of funny. He was awarded
Best Stand Up Comic at HBO’s
prestigious US Comedy Arts
Festival in 2007 and used to be
a roofer with a fear of carrying
heavy loads up icy ladders.
Russell Kane
Lee Mack Shane Mauss
Andrew Lawrence
Kathleen Madigan
Festival Debut
Festival Debut
Living in London but raised in
Kilbarrack, Andrew’s sharp,
incisive taboo-challenging
commentaries are always
anarchic, always passionate and
always very, very funny. He won
Chortle’s 2005 Comics’ Comic
Award, he was nominated for the
2007 if.comedy and he regularly
howls at the moon!
Sarah lives in Manchester;
her deliciously dark material
delivered with infectious bawdy
impishness won her the 2008
if.comedy Best Newcomer Award
and she describes herself as
“encouragingly pessimistic”.
Although he’s only 26, Chicago
born John’s darkly observational
material is delivered with the easy
grace of a seasoned performer.
He is a writer for Saturday Night
Live and has been doing comedy
since he was seven.
Barry’s from Cork but lives in
Dublin. His classy, mischievous
characters are always innovative,
provocative and spot-on. He co-
wrote RTE’s Soupy Norman,
is one third of Après Match and
still supports Leeds.
Colin is from Belfast. His well-
crafted stories are delivered with
the effortless confidence of a
genuine comedian. He has five sell
out solo shows at the Edinburgh
Comedy Festival under his belt and
he performed the first ever English
language comedy gig in Finland.
Although based in
Melbourne, Ross was born in
Northumberland. His comedy is
surreal, spontaneous and utterly
unique. He has received more
than twenty major international
comedy awards and before
he got into stand-up he sold
balloons as a stilt walker.
Andrew Maxwell John Mulaney
Barry Murphy Ross Noble
Sarah Millican
Colin Murphy
Festival Debut
Festival Debut
Jarlath Regan
David grew up near a pitch and
putt club in Sandymount, Dublin.
He has described his comedy as
very low energy musical whimsy.
He won the 2008 if.comedy
Award and is currently writing
a book called 100 Facts About
Pandas that will probably contain
100 facts about pandas.
Monaghan born Ardal’s comedy
is intelligent, understated and
deadpan. He played Robbie the
Reindeer in Hooves of Fire, a
naive superhero in My Hero and
a priest in some sitcom or other.
He’s great at Scrabble and his
favourite word is onyx (66 points
on a triple word score).
Originally from Kildare,
Jarlath’s original brand of clever
observational material is delivered
with debonair genteelness. He
makes obscure greeting cards
and enjoys underestimating things
in order to increase the level of
excitement in his life.
Jon comes from Bristol. His
grumpy young man style comes
from his ever-increasing neurosis
of being a single man living on his
own with just his absurd thoughts
for company. He won the 2008
Chortle Breakthrough Act Award
and was voted one of the top five
comedians to look out for in 2009
by the readers of Q Magazine.
There was a young man from
Nantucket – sorry, Limerick.
Karl’s from Limerick. He is
naturally funny with a self-
deprecating, ebullient sense of
humour. His commentary at the
comedians’ football match is one
of the high points of the festival
weekend and he’s a huge Marty
Whelan fan.
A household name in his native
Holland, Hans has sold over half
a million DVDs. His comedy is
surreal and uncompromising.
He’s won the 2008 Chortle Award
for Artistic Integrity and he is like
nothing you have ever seen before.
David O’Doherty
Jon Richardson Hans Teeuwen
Ardal O’Hanlon
Karl Spain
Festival Debut
Festival Debut
Born in Donegal but raised in
Navan, Tommy explodes onto the
stage like a hurricane, tackling
subjects from religion to racism.
A Perrier and Funniest Living Irish
Person awards winner, he was
also twice accused of blasphemy
in the Irish Senate.
This year’s improvisers are Ian Coppinger (Dublin Comedy
Improv), Brendan Dempsey (Dublin Comedy Improv), Phill Jupitus
(Comedy Store Players), Steve Frost (Whose Line Is It Anyway?)
and Rob Andrist Plourde (Boom Chicago). Chosen from the best
international improv troops around the world, Kilkenny sees them
all perform together on the same stage for the first time.
It doesn’t get any more improvised than this.
Watergate
Friday 29th May, 10.00pm €23; Saturday 30th May, 10.15pm €26
Sunday 31st May, 9.30pm €26
Dead Cat Bounce are (mostly) from Dublin.
They’re a sketch group with a very black sense
of humour and a great eye for believable comedy
characters. In 2008 the lads performed more than
56 shows in 24 days at the Edinburgh Comedy
Festival and this January RTÉ aired The Dead Cat
Bounce TV Pilot to public and critical delight.
Clubhouse Hotel
Saturday 30th May, 8.45pm €23
Sunday 31st May, 9.00pm €23
Tommy Tiernan
Dead Cat Bounce
The Cat Laughs International Improv
Festival Debut
Ireland continues to punch above its weight in quality and variety of emerging comedy talent due in no small
part to the numerous comedy clubs that have sprung up all over Ireland in the last few years. Acknowledging
this, the festival will showcase some of these clubs’ most talented headlining acts in the ever popular
Comedy Cats segment of the programme. Leading compères from this rapidly expanding club scene will
host many of the biggest shows over the weekend.
Comedy Cats & Compères
Clubhouse Hotel
Friday 29th May, 8pm €19
Saturday 30th May, 6.30pm €22
Sunday 31st May, 6.45pm €22
Cleeres
Saturday 30th May, 8.15pm & 10.15pm €22
Sunday 31st May, 8.30pm & 10.30pm €22
Bernard O’Shea
Eleanor Tiernan Eric Lalor John Lynn
Damian ClarkAidan Bishop
Dermot Whelan
Fred Cooke
Gar Murrin
Paddy Courtney
John Colleary
John Henderson Andrew Stanley
Barry Murphy and David O’Doherty battle it out
with the best videos on YouTube. Everyone has a
couple of YouTube favourites they like to ruin a good
party with; the sneezing panda, the battle at Kruger
park, more cowbell. But, unlike these lads, not
everyone has the time, inclination and professional
dedication to trawl through the internet and find the
all-time greatest YouTube clips. Come armed with
suggestions and pit yourself against the best by
playing YouTube Tennis (We’re not actually sure of
all the rules yet but that’s all part of the fun). You can
also post your suggestions for The YouTube Of The
Century Award on the Carlsberg Cat Laughs website.
Visit www.carlsbergcatlaughs.com/youtube.
Clubhouse Hotel, Sunday 31st May, 10.30pm €23
The Dark Show returns having been the underground hit of last year’s
festival. Who’d have thought people would want to see comedians delve
the more sinister recesses of their minds? Who’d have suspected anyone
would want to sit through a whole show utterly devoted to taboo subjects
and irreverent viewpoints? Who, in their right minds, would want to put
themselves through 75 minutes wondering if it’s PC to laugh? Well, lots
of people actually and if you’re one of them then come warm yourselves
by the devilish glow of the unholy triumvirate that is Andrew Maxwell, Greg Giraldo and Andrew Lawrence as they rip open the can of worms
trapped inside the darkest corner of Pandora’s Box.
Zoo, Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st May, 10.30pm €28
Festival favourites Adam Hills and Jason Byrne team up to bring you a unique blend of mania and spontaneity that has wowed audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe for the last two years. This unlikeliest of double acts present two spectacular shows spotlighting the amazing talents of festival debut artist, Hans Teeuwen. A household name in Holland, Hans has sold half a million DVDs there and is about to explode onto the international scene. He really is like nothing you will ever see again (unless you come and see him twice).
Kilkenny Ormonde Kings Suite, Saturday 30th
& Sunday 31st May, 8.30pm €28
Adam & Jason
Spotlight on... Hans Teeuwen
THE DARK SHOW
Messin’ with... YouTube
Oh it’s on! It’s definitely on! The Annual Football match between Ireland and
The Rest Of The World is most definitely on! The rose coloured glasses are
firmly attached and the kid gloves are off. The result of last year’s football
match vary depending on who you talk to; It was 4 – 2 or 5 – 2 to Ireland
with either Neil Delamere or David O’Doherty scoring the winning goal but
one thing’s for sure; Ireland won (unless you talk to someone from the Rest
Of The World who are convinced it was 15 – 3 to them with Andy Parsons
scoring a brace of hat-tricks). It’s shaping up to be a proper derby grudge
match with nothing less than comedic pride on the line. And with Karl Spain
and Steve Frost commentating from the sidelines, you won’t miss a thing.
Fairgreen, Sunday 31st May, 2.30pm Free
Football Match
Looking forward to the FA Cup Final? Wondering where’s the best place to watch it?
Feeling guilty at the prospect of spending the afternoon with like-minded people enjoying
one of the highlights of the sporting calendar? If the answers to these questions are Yes,
Yes and Not in the slightest then come watch it with us at the Left Bank on the Parade.
Barry Murphy & Karl Spain will host an informal screening of the match with passion,
punditry and prizes. The Match starts at 3.00pm so buy a ticket and get there early.
The Left Bank, Saturday 30th May, 2.30pm €10
Barry and Karl’s FA Cup Final
A Film With Me In It is an intelligent, savagely black comedy set in
Dublin. It follows Mark (Mark Doherty), a down at heel actor, and his
writer/gambler neighbour Pierce (Dylan Moran) as they try to chart
a course through a sea of murderously bad luck. It received no
fewer than 6 nominations at this year’s IFTA awards including best
film, best actor (Dylan Moran) and best screenplay (Mark Doherty).
It’s one of the best films of the year and we’re proud to screen it in
the Parade Tower at Kilkenny Castle. As an added bonus, there’ll
be a Q&A session afterwards with creator Mark Doherty.
Parade Tower Kilkenny Castle, Saturday 30th May, 1.30pm €8
A Film With Me In It