GALWAY’s loved up hunting couple Grace Murphy and William McMahon, who graced the cover of Irish Horse World on December 31st after William proposed on the hunting field, celebrated their engagement with family and friends from all over the country in the Meyrick Hotel, Galway, last Saturday night.

McMahon whisked Grace, who is well known in the Connemara showing scene, to Antwerp in early January where they picked out a diamond and had her ring custom made by the world famous Belgian jeweller Harold Philippe. Grace’s ring arrived just three days before the party and it is everything she had hoped for.