Mel Gibson ‘denied access to Puck pub’

Tall tales abound about Puck Fair, many of which have been enhanced and enlivened in the telling down the decades.

One of the more recent, which happened on this Gathering Day exactly 20 years ago, concerned the Hollywood superstar Mel Gibson.

Deep into the production of Braveheart, which at the time was being filmed around Meath and Dublin, the Aussie actor decided to take a few days off to visit Puck Fair — a festival he said he had heard about during his childhood.