THE festive season is around the corner and hunts nationwide are busy with meets, welcoming visitors home for Christmas and getting as much exercise into the horses and hounds as possible. Photographers Noel Mullins, Catherine Power and Ken O’Mahony captured a flavour of the action from the recent meets of the Iveagh Foxhounds at Brague, Co Down, the Golden Vale Foxhounds at Clonakenny and the Wicklow Hunt at Castletown.