THE East Galway Foxhounds meet at Timmy Broderick’s Pub in Kilconnell was just proof of the popularity of the hunt, but sadly, the hunt has lost two of their very popular former masters this season, Chantal Deon and Vincent Shields.

The weather has been very unkind and the going has been at best ‘yielding’, but really ‘soft’ in the hunt country. So a busy day’s hunting takes its toll on horses. But hunt staff and followers know when to call it a day as there is always the next day, and horses are much the better for it.