Festival set for side-splitting weekend as comics descend

CAT Laughs festival revellers have begun arriving in the Marble City for five days of non-stop comedy and side-splitting craic, beginning tonight.

Tickets for the Kilkenny festival, now ranked as Ireland’s No 1 comedy festival, are selling faster than ever as more than 25,000 people prepare to converge on Kilkenny for the 2003 Murphy’s Cat Laughs Comedy Festival.

An unprecedented demand for tickets has seen a huge number of the 18,000 available tickets snapped up by comedy lovers from around the world in only a couple of weeks. Most shows are booked out.