31/07/2009
One of Ireland's oldest fairs may be without its most important figure for the first time in 400 years.
The Puck Fair in County Kerry each year chooses a goat to be crowned king of the event. The king has been chosen, but as the Irish Times reports, he's in Ballycastle, and the Department of Agriculture will only give him a four-day permit to cross the border.
That doesn't allow enough time to travel there and back and spend three days at the fair.
The organiser of the event tells the paper: "It will take a miracle if we have to revert to Plan B. Normally it takes our master goat catcher Frank Joy and his team up to six weeks to catch a goat in the Macgillycuddy Reeks."
