Peter Kay made the news last weekend when he kicked two hecklers out of his show at the Manchester Arena. Kay defended the move afterwards, saying he'd done his "best to address the situation and made light of it,

And whether he likes it or not, Garlic Bread is Peter Kay’s ‘thing’, his hit, his equivalent of Paul McCartney playing ‘Hey Jude’ and yet, as he put it in his statement, being used to disrupt this particular show. It’s an unenviable position for any performer to be in.

The comedian compared Myar Curran to Emmerdale star Lisa Riley as he had her removed from a stand-up tour date in Manchester.

A shark bit the hands off a woman along the shore of a Caribbean beach while she was trying to take a picture with it. So much for solidarity. CNN’s chief White House correspondent was drowned out by laughter from her colleagues in the Oval Office on Thursday after her line of questioning about Russia’s war in Ukraine prompted President Trump to tear into her and the network.

Darragh Murphy is a stand-up comedian and journalist from Cork city. He performs regularly at gigs across the country, including clubs like the Comedy Cavern, the Comedy Bunker and the CoCo Club here on Leeside - and now he's given us his opinion on the 'heckler row' that has overshadowed Peter Kay's big comeback tour.

Dispatching hecklers used to be seen as a "badge of honour" on the comedy circuit but that fell out of favour for a while, as "the art form gentrified", said Logan. Now, however, "crowd backchat is back in vogue",