PADRAIG Flanagan has returned to his roots, and to his love of horses, in recent weeks and is now back working alongside his father Pat outside Loughrea instead of in accountancy in Co Meath.

“I decided to give it another go!” said Flanagan who won two classes at the Dressage Ireland Midlands and Western Region Show in Ballinasloe last Sunday. “I gave up accountancy in 2019 to work full-time with horses but I broke my leg badly in 2020 and so had a re-think. For the past two and a half years I was working with Woods & Partners at their Meath office in Kells but seven weeks ago I decided to pack it all in, go back home and start working again with horses.