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Wed 06 Jun 2007Opposition jibes worse than a red rag to a raging 'Bull'Pamplona politics has arrived in Kildare Street. The running of the bull looks set to become a big weekly draw in the Dáil (Or the Plaza de Toro, as we aficionados like to call the chamber).It'll not please the Greens, who are anti-blood sports. This might explain why their new Ministers, John Gormley and Eamon Ryan, weren't present for yesterday's cruel baiting of the Ceann Comhairle. Hadn't the stomach for it.