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It’s that time of year again - when hysteria takes over and belly laughs become the norm - the Carlsberg Cat Laughs Comedy Festival is due back in town.

With a World Cup just around the corner, the timing could not be better for every discerning Irish sports fan’s favourite comedy triumvirate to bring their new show to the Kilkenny stage.

LONG BEFORE David O’Doherty ever took to the stage he was a devoted student of comedy arts. He would regularly go to see his brother Mark perform at The Comedy Cellar in Dublin and watched the international explosion of Irish comedy in the late 1990s.

After a disappointing exit from the AIB Cup last weekend, Galwegians return to division one league action when they host Clontarf at Crowley Park on Saturday (2.30pm).

ANDREW MAXWELL is a regular face on RTÉ’s The Panel alongside Dara O’Briain, Colin Murphy, Ed Byrne, and Neil Delamare. The cheeky chap from Kilbarrack draws chuckles whether ranting about D4s and their SUVs or making sexual advances towards Grainne Seoige.

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The programme for this year’s Carlsberg Cat Laughs Comedy festival was launched in Kilkenny this week.

THE RECESSION is biting hard. Many have lost their jobs or have been forced to take pay cuts. The Government, for so long in denial about the economic downturn, is threatening savage cutbacks in the upcoming Budget, and industrial unrest looks certain.

Pressure is mounting on Connacht to secure the seasonal double over the Dragons and with it their hopes of a Heineken Cup play-off place when the two sides meet this weekend in Newport.

The Cat Laughs festival has opened the box office for ticket sales at the brewery on Parliament Street in the city.