IN 2024, the inaugural TRI Eventing Ireland grassroots championships, staged as a standalone fixture at Ballindenisk in July, attracted a disappointing entry so this year they were incorporated into last week’s EI national championships in Barnadown.

There was a change of sponsor for 2025 to Glas Equine but still the numbers forward were small with the largest field of five contesting the combined EI80 national and grassroots championship where the scores after dressage ranged from 30.6 to 39.5 penalties.