Richard Cook - founder of the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival + MAYhem - 17/06/26

The KCLR Daily with Brian Redmond · Sep 17, 2026 · 12m

Richard Cook - founder of the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival + MAYhem. When The Cat Laughs was little more than an idea in Kilkenny in 1995, Eamonn backed it. He helped fund that very first festival and, over the years that followed, was always there with venues, rooms and, very often, a solution when we badly needed one. There might have been a Cat Laughs without Eamonn Langton, but we wouldn’t bet on it