Meanwhile, At The Smithfield Horse Fair

Smithfield Horse Fair, Dublin, yesterday.

The awkward moment when a garda tries to check for an electronic tag on an impressively-endowed horse.

Pics by Mark Henderson.


134 thoughts on “Meanwhile, At The Smithfield Horse Fair”

    • You obviously slept alone.

      And that’s okay.

    • I like how the horsey-owner guy – who looks like he’s having fun – just gives up after pic three.

  13. oh wow that’s embarrassing, maybe you should blur their faces, i would not wish for my worst enemy to such a position

      • Keep a close eye on the poo, it leaves an odd trail if you follow it.

        It’s not at first clear who laid that particular pie. But I have my suspicions.

    • Is that a horse in your pocket or is he just happy to see you?

      It’s to much, nothing to see here, ride on!!

  15. Poor Garda. when they are sitting down to a mug of tae and a ginger snap, the war stories will be shared. ” I pepper sprayed some crusties” “I batonned a crusty” ” I tazered a crusty” ……..”eh I got smacked around the head by a horsey penis”………………

  17. Precisely where is the horses ‘tag’ located?

  21. The new extendable baton training was not quite what the Gardai had envisaged…

    • What would you expect him to wear, a low cut vest/leggings and converse combo topped off with a quiff?

  29. Karl Deeter believes that up to 1/4 of people in arrears on their mortgages are doing so deliberately to benefit from the repossession and debt forgiveness laws.

  33. The fella in black isn’t actually a guard though, is he? It’s the fella in the first pic standing in the b/g

    • Nope, it is a guard not the guy in the first pic.. He’s in blue not black, you can see his extendable baton attached just above his trousers, you can also just make out some of the reflective jacket he’s wearing.

  35. Wow, the d*ck actually hit his head. I mean, it ACTUALLY touched his head. A horse’s d*ick touched the Garda’s head. Won’t live that down.

  40. My first time agreeing with ‘A Brian Kennedy Rugby Tackle’. Unless he is being sarcastic…hmm…

  42. The day turned out to be a bit of a mare for the poor unsuspecting officer who was left feeling a little hoarse.

  45. 1.Beware of people offering pony rides in Smithfield.
    2. Is this where the expression “caught off your guard” comes from?

  55. Normally a fella has to go round the corner to Benburb St and pay cash for this sort of thing

  63. the horse will be trained in templemore to be an upstanding (groan) member (i’ll stop now) of the force. Then sent over to rebecca brooks for some relief (sorry) from stress

  67. Oh horse cocky, this is animal cruelty, the mare was in the barn waiting on her stallion, but idiots got in the way!

  68. Well it proves my point. Never take a shower with a Stallion and never ever drop your bar of soap!!!!!

  71. He should have tried the old Jedi mind trick
    This is not the mare your looking for!

  72. I was going to say that the handler should have been beating that horse to make him stop….Then I thought about it….that wouldn’t sound right :/

  73. In frame number five Stallion is whispering in his ear.

    Love you Schlong time! or
    Stay HORNY my friend HOS XX