Carlsberg Cat Laughs Comedy Festival 2009

28th May – 1st June 2009

Kilkenny

Tickets 056 7763837www.carlsbergcatlaughs.com

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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


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

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Fri 29th May


Clubhouse Hotel


Rivercourt

Kytelers

Watergate

Village Inn

Club 51 at Kilford Arms


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


Sat 30th May


Kytelers

Orchard at Hotel Kilkenny


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


Skyline at Hotel Kilkenny


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


Langtons

Zoo


Clubhouse Hotel

Rivercourt

Village Inn

Cleeres

Watergate


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


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


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


Sun 31st May6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm Midnight

Rivercourt


Langtons

Orchard at Hotel Kilkenny

Village Inn

Zoo

Clubhouse Hotel


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


Comedy Cats €22 90mins Comedy Cats €22 90mins

Des Bishop, Lee Mack, Bill Burr, Aidan Bishop €29 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


Mon 1st June

Langtons



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


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


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

A: Laugh. B: Cry.C: Laugh till you cry.

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