Does this happen?
This movie is interesting, do people in Ireland ride horses into their houses often? That'd be so cool, for some reason.
shareYeah, all the time. Sure I galloped into the next door neighbours gaff only this morning.
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I dont see anything wrong with bringing a horse into ur house.. as long as its house broke!
shareThe worst thing about bringing horses into the house in Ireland is that the beastly things use all the hot water. Everytime you go to the bathroom in an Irish home, there's a horse in there, singing Danny Boy and blowing Radox bubbles out of the window while everyone else queues on the landing.
shareYES. people were keeping horses at the Ballymun flats at the time the story was written. It was widely reported in the media around the time of the movie's release.
I can't remember the exact attitude the authorities had to it, think it was a mixture of 'bad for public health' /'who cares what the travellers do' / 'we can't control it'.
anyway, what's the big difference between keeping a horse in an empty room in a house and keeping it in a designated stable? People the world over have been keeping animals in their homes for millenia.
I think there still are horses floating about Ballymun at the moment but the idea that the everyday Irish person brings horses into their houses is ridiculous. Next you'll be asking us if we're all little green leprachauns and keep pots of gold under our bed.
shareThanks for all of the great replies to this ridiculous question. You gave me a great laugh.
BTW, I would keep my horse in the house but he cannot manage the basement steps.
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It can happen in the US.
I had a friend, a Sgt. in the Boston Police stationed in South Boston. One time, back around 1972, he told me about a call he had taken. A woman in a first floor apartment in the old D Street housing project called about noise from the apartment above her. When he got there he heard no noise and was about to leave when he heard clip-clop through the ceiling. The tenant above had been in a late night poker game and everybody was drunk. A junk man was out of cash, bet his horse and lost. The guy took the horse back to his apartment.
The problem was that horses will go up stairs but not down stairs and he could not get the horse out. I recall being told they had to get the MSPCA rescue people in, the horse had to be sedated by a vet and then was taken out through a window with a crane.
My friend said it was the funniest thing he had seen in his years on the job. Sorry I cant call him to get more details, Harry died a couple of years ago.