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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3Strangely enough, the Smithfield horse fair only dates to the late '60s. That's the 1960s. There had been a market there from the fifteenth century and Smithfield Plaza (as it's called today) was designed to accommodate it in 1665. However, it was never popular with local residents who have been trying to get it closed down since the 1670s.
The cattle market was removed to the North Circular Road in 1863. However, although generally assumed otherwise, the market continued at Smithfield for the sale of milch cows, store cattle and pigs until the foot and mouth outbreak of 1883, when the sale of cattle was forbidden outside of the new market, to meet the disease control requirements of the Privy Council.
Their refusal to renew the licence at Smithfield because of unsanitary conditions led to a protest meeting on 28 May 1883 resulting in a petition to the Corporation, which in turn referred the matter to the Privy Council, the body which effectively had forced the market’s closure. The Lord Lieutenant eventually informed a deputation that ‘the lack of paving at Smithfield inhibited disinfection… and the existence of a hay and straw market… would result in various animal diseases being carried home on farmers’ carts from an infected market’. It would appear that this problem was rectified within the next 20 years and in 1899, 1912 and again in 1934 attempts were made by the Corporation to transfer the sale of pigs from the Phoenix Street corner to the North Circular Road and to confine business at Smithfield to the weekly sale of hay and straw.
The horse fair has received support in the past from those nostalgic for the auld Dubbalin, the pot of coddle, Lugs Brannigan and the way he might whack ya. Strangely enough though for years the Corpo were putting it about that they couldn't close down the horse fair because it had a medieval charter which couldn't easily be extinguished. The problem is of course if you close it down, it'll only go somewhere else.
I was brought to the Ballinasloe fair as a kid. I left screaming crying due to the abuse I saw there. I was about 10 at the time. I saw an auld lad wallop a horse with a huge stick, straight on his hocks. the horse screamed and reared..... the auld lad said he was "testing" him. My mother had to pull me away..... I haven't been back since. I'd get beaten up 'cos I couldnt stand by watching that shit, and I couldn't save them either. If your purebred dog goes missing, Ballinasloe fair is a good place to go looking for him too. They turn up there every year. From Dublin, from everywhere. Maybe I'll go next year and just take pictures......
This time it's a Shooting with a homemade shotgun. Other men attacked others with sticks, tyre irons and other weapons. (Other weapons according to the video in the link is slash-hooks)
Oh and People and Horses were stampeding.
Man held over Smithfield gun attack
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0306/smithfield.html