‘Loony’ EU to take fun out of the circus

TRAPEZE artists with Ireland’s most celebrated circus could soon be forced to wear hard hats to comply with new EU safety rules.

The same goes for jugglers, tightrope walkers and other acrobats with Fossetts, the oldest continually touring circus in the world.

“Oh, no. Not another regulation,” exclaimed family spokesman Charles O’Brien when he heard about the latest Brussels safety rules yesterday. “We already have so many.”