Ears pricked

RUTH Alley, an advertising consultant who advises multinationals on their advertising policy, tackles a yawning trench with the Brosna Foxhounds. Alley lives lives near the Dancing Tree in Tara country and regularly travels to hunt with the Brosna.

All smiles

Jill Finn and Lightning Jess, stars of the Irish Horse World amazing cover shot last week, were pictured with photographer Bettie Furlong before the day’s excitement with the Wexford Foxhounds began in earnest.

Horrigan’s back

CHRIS Horrigan, pictured with Ward Union huntsman Pat Coyle at Bellewstown last Friday made a comeback to hunting after a 10-year lay-off due to a shoulder injury on a new hunter sourced by the Ward’s honorary whipper-in Kieran Ryan.

Full attention

THE Ormond hounds are pictured giving their huntsman Denis O’Sullivan their full attention in this photo taken by Nicholas Ryan-Purcell at his family’s front lawn in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary recently.

Band of brothers

COLIN, Jack and Cathal O’Gorman lead a group of young South Tipperary Harriers members home in the evening sun on John C Byrne’s impressive tillage farm near Newcastle in Co Tipperary.