Is Bullfighting banned in Ireland?

sleepyholland

This is in no way meant to be a debate about the rights or wrongs of bullfighting.

Put simply, if I have a suitable venue, the appropriate permissions to stage an attended live show and I want to fight, and hopefully kill a bull, for the entertainment of a paying audience, can I do this in Ireland.

Is there a law that prevents it?

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Riamfada

sleepyholland wrote: »

Is there a law that prevents it?

Moral law count?Anyway it wouldnt work here, it only works in Spain because its a cultural institution. Trying to introduce a widely publicised blood sport in 2010 Ireland would be a ... challenge.

TangyZizzle

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That would only have been a suitable comment had he not said the following

sleepyholland wrote: »

This is in no way meant to be a debate about the rights or wrongs of bullfighting.

Plebs

Lord Waterford is good mates with Prince Charles and they often go out hunting together. Don't see why bullfighting would be any different.

Personally, I think the liberal incumbents in the Spanish government are going a bit too far. It's usually the city types who vote liberal and then go on to impose laws on country folk so as to satisfy some ideological wankology. The impositions being in areas where they're not affected one iota and haven't got a clue or a care about the way some parts of Spanish society lives.

There's also an element of bourgeois jealousy/"we'll show them" mentality: bullfighting is an elite sport full of aristo types from wealthy families that go right back to the hey day of Spanish influence in the world.

opinion guy

I think it would come under cruelty to animals in Ireland and thus be illegal

starbelgrade

We don't need bullfighting when we have the national daily sport of bullsh*ting...

"I'll have that for you tomorrow"

"That'll be finished by the end of the week"

"I'll be there by 10am at the latest"

sleepyholland

To be honest I wasn't sure what forum to post this in. It's obviously a sport but I couldn't decide between extreme sports, hunting, self defence/martial arts...
So AH seemed appropriate.

Grimes wrote: »

Moral law count?Anyway it wouldnt work here, it only works in Spain because its a cultural institution. Trying to introduce a widely publicised blood sport in 2010 Ireland would be a ... challenge.

We have no culture of surfing but that has become very popular lately.
We also have a lot of spanish people living here, and since Catalonia just banned Bullfighting there are becoming less places where it can be watched.
It could become a tourism draw.

We also have a huge cattle herd and farmers aren't getting the prices they used to, so the idea might gain some support there.

super_furry

Think insurance is going to be the first hurdle you'd fall at.

geeky

opinion guy wrote: »

I think it would come under cruelty to animals in Ireland and thus be illegal

+1 on this.

On a practical level, I can guarantee you the Joe Duffy crowd would be all over this the minute you started trying to advertise it. [rightly, IMO]

MrStuffins

sleepyholland wrote: »

We have no culture of surfing but that has become very popular lately.
We also have a lot of spanish people living here, and since Catalonia just banned Bullfighting there are becoming less places where it can be watched.
It could become a tourism draw.

Nor sure about Bull-Fighting, but noce to see Bull-Talking is alive and well!

Sharpshooter

sleepyholland wrote: »

This is in no way meant to be a debate about the rights or wrongs of bullfighting.

Put simply, if I have a suitable venue, the appropriate permissions to stage an attended live show and I want to fight, and hopefully kill a bull, for the entertainment of a paying audience, can I do this in Ireland.

Is there a law that prevents it?

Why not try to find a venue and get the appropriate permissions first OP.

If you want to kill a bull for entertainment and get paid for it then After Hours is not the place to ask.

Try Google.

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