What's the deal with Puck Fair?

One of Ireland’s oldest festivals is on this weekend and it’s also one of our more unusual ones - famously involving a goat.

What's the deal with Puck Fair?

Last year's King Puck with goat catcher Frank Joy

One of Ireland’s oldest festivals is on this weekend and it’s also one of our more unusual ones - famously involving a goat. And not just any old goat, mind - this is a wild mountain goat captured in the mountains of Kerry - by a practiced group of goat-catchers - who is destined to be crowned King Puck.

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