I’M based in Skryne, Tara, outside Navan, Co Meath. My day job is as a pensions consultant and professional trustee. When I was seven years old, my parents bought me my first pony, Dicky, followed by a palomino pony called Champagne when I was 13, and I was hooked for life.

I was part of a group of pony-mad children who grew up in Sutton/Howth, who would think nothing of riding their ponies from dawn till dusk around the Hill of Howth.