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Irish Mirror
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Gavin O'Callaghan

Rumours flying as Hollywood actor Tom Cruise's private jet touches down at Kerry Airport

Rumours are starting to spread that a major celeb may be in Munster after their private jet touched down in Shannon this week before heading to Kerry today.

Tom Cruise's Challenger 300 left Maine in the USA on Monday and went to Shannon. The man himself was spotted in Cumbria in the UK paragliding over a lake on Sunday.

The 60-year-old was filming Mission Impossible 8 when he went straight over the head of a fan before landing beside her.

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As he was there his jet flew over and touched into Shannon on Monday, and today it took a 12-minute flight to Kerry with the Twitter account Celebrity Jets estimating it took €420 worth of fuel.

Whether he's onboard or not isn't known, but many are joking he's going to celebrate the men's big All-Ireland win.

Others felt the plane's journey was wasteful, given the costs of running it for such a short space of time.

If there it won't be his first time visiting the Kingdom, although his trip to the Loo Bridge Bar outside Kilgarvan in 1991 proved to be fairly bizarre.

The actor popped in with Nicole Kidman as their were filming Far and Away, but after ordering some diet cokes he ended up in a weird altercation with a local who accused him of stealing a packet of cigarettes.

Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae told the story at the start of the year telling Newstalk: "There was a man sitting down the end of the counter called Ger the Manny.

"He was an elderly man and he had his stick up on the counter and he was sipping away at a little glass of Guinness."

He then said a young barman called Matt went into the backroom and while gone Tom had his hand over the counter.

"Ger jumped up off his stool, he caught his stick and drew a belt at yer man’s [Tom] hand trying to hit him across the hand.

"But he just missed and there was a big bang down on the counter right near the Yank’s hand."

The barman ran back in at which point Cruise said he was leaning over to get more ice, but Ger the Manny wasn't convinced and said he was looking to take the cigs.

"The Yank looked at them and said, 'I was not, I was trying to steal nothing.' They sipped away at their Diet Coke and left." Healy-Rae added.

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