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10th August 2023
03:05pm BST

The Puck Fair festival in Killorglin (Photo via Rolling News)[/caption]
National Animal Rights Association Spokesperson Laura Broxson believes that the festival can continue to thrive without the use of live animals at the centre of things.
While noting the efforts to limit the goats time in the cage, Ms Broxson said they didn't go far enough, probably because they were "fearful of some sort of backlash."
"I think the committee themselves are making an attempt to fizzle it out. They haven't gone far enough; but if they can admit that it's wrong to keep a goat up in a cage for three days, then surely they can't think that's it's OK to have him around for a couple of hours," she said on Newstalk Breakfast this morning.
"It's an attempt, but it's not good enough and it needs to be the last time that a goat is used for this fair.
"If they need to have a symbolic goat figure, they could have competitions in wood-carving, sculpting, they could have an animatronic goat if they want to - they could have a teddy bear goat if they want to.
"Anything else will do, they can be innovative with this, just take live animals out of it."
Ms Broxon also noted that there would be much more uproar if a house pet like a cat or a dog was put up in the cage.
This year's festival began today, Thursday 10 August and will run until Saturday 12.
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