I quite enjoy Tom Cruise as an actor, but I am more than a little disturbed by his Scientology
There is a local legend here in Miltown Malbay, County Clare (possibly true, considering the source) that Cruise and Nicole Kidman once paid a flying low-profile visit to the town and stayed at a little bed-and breakfast on the outskirts.
The landlady, and elderly, sober and very honest lady said she hadn't a clue who they were but they were spotted by a neighbour who passed on the information - Theresa said they were a lovely couple - "he was a nice little Leprechaun of a man"
Mind you, John Rea, the hammered dulcimer player from Antrim once told us that he bumped into Sophia Loren one evening while he was taking his dog for a walk.
Jim Carroll