{"id":1998,"date":"2015-06-30T19:34:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T19:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2015-06-30T19:34:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T19:34:21","slug":"that-beats-banagher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/that-beats-banagher\/","title":{"rendered":"That Beats Banagher"},"content":{"rendered":"

They want the horse fair banished from the streets to a field
\nWhere they believe all horses should be
\nTheir spirit contained, their owners constrained
\nNot on the streets to walk with their owners free
\nTo deal with the buyers, who bargain with the sellers
\nAs the horses stand by proud as part of the herd
\nWhich those who would stop it pretend never existed
\nAs if of the bond between man and beast they never heard…<\/p>\n

\"Youths<\/a>
Youths enjoying Banagher Horse Fair in 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How did in days gone by before cars and fumes
\nBrought us from where we were to where we wanted to go
\nHoe did we plough the fields, bring the turf home?
\nTow barges before engines on canals long ago?
\nYesm horses are to man as is the dog
\nThat races along between its owners feet
\nIts not natural to ban them behind hedges to a field
\nAll are natural, and at home, on the street.<\/p>\n

Some cite shit – reason to banish it from the street:
\nCan that not from the street be cleaned like years ago?
\nIts not polluting, its natural the smell
\nUnlike diesel, which pollutes the Shannon river from the boats below…
\nBut there’s Germans in the boats that on the water floats
\nNot Travellers in their own land
\nSo they are free from small minded bigotry
\nThe agenda of the objectors we understand.<\/p>\n

Micro chips on horses in principle with we have no problem:
\nIt would help with breed and record of dam and sire
\nBut what of common horses of common people
\nWho cannot afford veterinary fees that always go higher?
\nAre the poor to be forced too poor to own horses?
\nIs the horse only for the gentry to be?
\nBut sure the objectors always hate the hunt
\nThe Anglo Irish another target of their bigotry.<\/p>\n

The Good Friday Agreement in principle is good:
\nThough delivering little while promising all to all
\nParity of esteem is proven to be little more than a dream
\nIf fair what they do to our Fair is what we allow them to call
\nThe regulations they enforce to our little town
\nAs horse fairs on streets in other towns are left alone…
\nIt will be resisted, ignored and defeated
\nThis is a tradition we will keep, thats our heritage, our own.<\/p>\n

That beats Banagher they say: we say no way
\nThat does not beat Banagher this time:
\nWe are Banagher, stand behind a tradition of our town and our land:
\nBanagher beats the Devil again that tries to make our Horse Fair a crime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They want the horse fair banished from the streets to a field Where they believe all horses should be Their spirit contained, their owners constrained Not on the streets to walk with their owners free To deal with the buyers, who bargain with the sellers As the horses stand by …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[439,55,54,256],"tags":[2193,2194,718,926,779,869,781,2192],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banagher","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-ireland","category-irish-heritage","tag-banagher-beats-the-band","tag-banagher-beats-the-devil","tag-banagher-horse-fair","tag-equine","tag-horse-fairs-of-ireland","tag-horses","tag-irish-traveller","tag-that-beats-banagher","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-we","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":489,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/long-may-horses-shit-the-streets\/","url_meta":{"origin":1998,"position":0},"title":"Long May Horses Shit the Streets","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"11th September 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/mXJVfrCSgrM Horses and ponies, dealers and wheelers The street is a farmyard for a day... 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