Fair resemblance for Puck’s King Enda

A WILD goat soon to be crowned king of one of Ireland’s oldest pageants has been named Enda in honour of the Taoiseach.

Fair resemblance for Puck’s King Enda

The committee behind the annual Puck Fair in Killorglin, Co Kerry, have chosen the name because the goat captured on the Kerry mountains has similar colouring to the Fine Gael leader.

“He has fairish hair like Enda so we took our inspiration from that,” said supreme goat-catcher Frank Joy from Ballyclave, Glenbeigh, who led a three-day hunt for the goat on the dangerous clifftops of Callinafercy.

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