Kenneth O Halloran
A Horse and A Handshake
Ballinasloe Horse Festival, one from a series for the article "A Horse and A Handshake," October 30, 2011. John Harty, a 13-year-old traveler from Loughrea, County Galway, was at the fair with his grandfather.For the past 300 years, the fair is where people have gone to trade skewbalds and piebalds, which today can go for anywhere between 200 and 10,000 euros.
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