Funny men make the cats laugh

THEY can tackle hecklers like they were bowling pins and deliver punchlines to the back of the net with pinpoint accuracy, but the skills of Ireland’s comedians proved a little less sharp on the football pitch.

The annual Comics Festival Football Match played in Kilkenny yesterday as part of the Murphy's Cat Laughs comedy weekend saw the Irish take on the rest of the world and present no real threat of global domination.

A 5-3 drubbing left them resigned to the fact that the day job suits better and the tens of thousands who flocked to the comedy capital for the ninth Cat Laughs festival couldn't agree more.