NEWS reached the followers of the East Galway Foxhounds recently of the sad passing of Tim Gwyn-Jones, former joint-master of the pack, a victim of coronavirus. Tim was brought up in Kent in the UK and became a very astute businessman in property from an early age. Although he hunted with the Puckeridge, VWH, Quorn, Belvoir and the Bicester, it was not until he became a regular visitor to Ireland that he settled into a pastime that was to give him so much pleasure, attracted by the lack of formality in Irish hunting, and also that allowed him to make so many new friends.

Aidan ‘Suntan’ O’Connell became a lifelong friend and bought him a lot of hunters over the years from the time Tim first visited Ireland to hunt with the Scarteen and the County Limerick Hounds in 1969. He recalled after a great day with the Scarteens, and at an equally great party afterwards in The Golden Thatch Bar in Emly, when master and huntsman Thady Ryan rounded off the night with a rendering of the Percy French song ‘Whistling Phil McHugh’!