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Bull market for T-shirts.


Byline: LIAM HORAN

MILLIONS of people worldwide have watched CCTV CCTV
abbr.
closed-circuit television


CCTV closed-circuit television
 footage of a raging bull rampaging through an Irish shop.

The one-tonne beast caused chaos when it chased customers up and down aisles in the Cummins' SuperValu store in Ballinrobe, Co Mayo, last week.

Now canny entrepreneur Tim Kelly has capitalised on the phenomenal global media interest by creating a special clothing line.

Mr Kelly, who runs T-shirt site www.puckout.com, said: "I have never seen anything as funny on television. I decided I had to create a range of T-shirts to mark the occasion, particularly as I realised the footage would be viewed all over the world.

"People just want a laugh, now more than ever, and the Ballinrobe bull certainly provided that." The animal's bid for freedom after escaping from a farmers' market was featured on leading TV channels including Sky and CNN CNN
 or Cable News Network

Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world.
. YouTube viewings of the incident passed 120,000 yesterday.

Irish Mirror Comment: Page 8

CAPTION(S):

MEAT SECTION Butcher's apron with bull motif SHOPPED Bull caught on camera running amok SEDATE se·date
v.
To administer a sedative to; calm or relieve by means of a sedative drug.
 Bull in calmer form in local field
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Apr 27, 2009
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