I WAS back in drumlin country in County Down with its well-tended thorn hedges, double banks, drains, stone walls, gates and a serious amount of wire, definitely not for the faint-hearted. Only well mounted horsemen and women need apply!

One of the most celebrated guests that hunted with the County Downs was that swashbuckling, heartthrob and Hollywood actor of the era, Errol Flynn, who hunted from Michael O’Reilly’s Pub in Dromara in 1935. Flynn’s grandparents on his father’s side were from Co Leitrim and Meath.