The Puck stops here: Sweltering heat prompts shortest reign ever for Killorglin's King Puck

Joe Duffy received a tsunami of texts about Puck's incarceration in soaring temperatures — and now the goat is gone

Controversy rages on 'Liveline' in 2022 — but that was of no consequence to Liz O'Connor, the Queen of Puck Fair, who crowned King Puck in Killorglin on August 10, 1983. Picture: Eddie O'Hare/Irish Examiner Archive

In what looks to be the shortest reign ever for a goat, King Puck was taken down unceremoniously on the second day of his rule to avoid temperatures of 26C and up.

A local vet decided that such heat, while in a metal cage over Killorglin, was too hot to handle for the Macgillycuddy goat.