A huge drop in the number of animals for sale and in prices being fetched was reported at one of the country’s oldest horse fairs.

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

Mickey Rooney’s approach to life was simple: “Let’s put on a show!” He spent nine decades doing it, on the big screen, on television, on stage, and in his extravagant personal life.

Mickey Rooney, the pint-size, precocious actor and all-around talent whose career spanned more than 80 years, has died at the age of 93.

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Willie Supple got Dana’s Present up in the last stride to grab the spoils in a three-way photo finish to the Clipper Logistics Leger Legends Stakes at Doncaster yesterday.

Róisín Burke has many happy memories of of her childhood trips to Kerry’s unique Puck Fair, which is at least 400 years old

“D’you see that fine mare over there. Wouldn’t you know she was special from the way she stands out,” nudged the man with a funny hat, pointing his stick in the direction of a grand grey in the middle of the field.

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HAIL King Enda, master of all he surveys in the town by the Laune.

The cast of hit American show 'Glee' are to make their first live UK TV performance on the 'X Factor' semi-final.

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YOU didn’t have to be bigger than all the rest to catch the eye at Kenmare Fair yesterday.

THEY say if you can last the full three days at Puck Fair you can get through anything, but the relentless craic at this year’s festival was enough to shake even seasoned fair-goers.

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THOUGH they are not a peculiarly Irish institution we have infused them with a flavour and vigour uniquely our own.

DID you hear the one about how north Cork fairies inspired one of Shakespeare’s biggest hits?

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THE children of the Celtic Tiger are beginning to dictate trends at one of the country’s oldest horse fairs.

IT’S a ritual almost as old as Puck Fair itself - the capture of a male mountain goat that will become King Puck and preside over three days and nights of shenanigans in Killorglin.

WESTS Awake rattled off his third win in the space of 11 days when landing the Frank Hannon Memorial Handicap Chase at Roscommon last night when a huge crowd basked in glorious sunshine and helped create a Tote record for the track.

Puck Out (10-1) got the Irish off to a great start on Grand National day as he ran out a comfortable winner of the Martell Cordon Bleu Handicap Hurdle.

COLOURFUL Puck Fair, in Killorglin, Co Kerry, has a long-earned reputation for madcap acts and wild boozing, but it’s place where you can also learn how to behave yourself.