Nine people, who were accused of behaving in a threatening, abusive and insulting manner on YouTube, have been bound to the peace for two years after charges against them for breaching the peace were struck out.
All nine were alleged to have taken part in a video recording as part of a feud between two Traveller families.
Garda Superintendent Denis Shields said the charges would be withdrawn on the basis that all of those involved would be bound over to keep the peace.
Judge Seamus Hughes criticised what he said was "the goading and incitement of people" on the videos, which were played in Longford District Court today.
He said there was an urgent need for representative organisations of the Travelling community to express their revulsion at the "barbaric tradition" of bare knuckle fighting.
Judge Hughes said these fights would continue unless there was a change in the law which would make illegal to be part of a fight, set it up or control such an event.
He said he would bind all of those people before the court to keep the peace and make it a condition that they would refrain from training for, participating in or organising bare knuckle fights.
Judge Hughes said it appeared to him that anything up to €20,000 could be at stake in some of the fights but to ensure there was no repetition he was prepared to set a bond of €300 per person and order that all of those before the court enter into that bond for a period of two years.
Nine people handed in €2,700 into the court and signed the bond.
Cases against a further seven people have been adjourned until 5 March so they can also enter into a bond to keep the peace.
