{"id":1389,"date":"2015-04-26T13:57:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T13:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2015-04-26T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T14:00:29","slug":"reboot-banagher-horse-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/reboot-banagher-horse-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Reboot Banagher Horse Fair&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We will see you, as a sure thing, in September<br \/>\nOn the Main Street among the proud horses there<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll walk among crowds, dogs, the shady folk and the shades<br \/>\nAt the 2015 Banagher Horse Fair&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Make sure your car has no green diesel<br \/>\nAnd your horse is not on hormones as well<br \/>\nBring cash to buy a nag and some naggins<br \/>\nThe pubs may be shut, or open, who can tell?<\/p>\n<p>What has become of a free nation<br \/>\nWhen to hold a horse fair is rebellious to do?<br \/>\nWe had that freedom even under the British:<br \/>\nWas it for that Babser held guns with the brave few?<\/p>\n<p>Reboot Ireland some say, stating with the rural<br \/>\nIreland is nothing without its heart&#8230;<br \/>\nIts heart is here, kept alive by us, the activists<br \/>\nRebooting Banagher Horse Fair will be a start!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"4\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf\/\/42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB\/lQPb79drWOyJVa\/DAvg9B\/rLB4cC+Nqgdz\/TvBbBnr6GBReqn\/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I\/fZou\/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/18IPwcQxTH\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_top\">See you at the #2015 #banagher #horsefair http:\/\/fb.com\/banagherhorsefair http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/big-government-makes-banagher-a-one-horse-town-blog\/ Photo: Dave Boylan by kind permission&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A photo posted by Thomas Carty (@tomjcarty) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2015-04-26T13:17:24+00:00\">Apr 26, 2015 at 6:17am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will see you, as a sure thing, in September On the Main Street among the proud horses there We&#8217;ll walk among crowds, dogs, the shady folk and the shades At the 2015 Banagher Horse Fair&#8230; Make sure your car has no green diesel And your horse is not on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,439,1],"tags":[663,718,926,1806,925,907,1807,818,1805],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-banagher","category-uncategorized","tag-austerity-2","tag-banagher-horse-fair","tag-equine","tag-fine-gael","tag-horse","tag-john-leahy","tag-local-politics","tag-politics-2","tag-renua","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-mp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":624,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/they-took-from-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":1389,"position":0},"title":"They Took from Us","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"18th September 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"We lost our fire stations, it costs to much to save our lives Not enough folk die from fires, is the reason our station doesn't thrive! 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