MORE than 100 friends and followers attended a reception for retiring Fingal Harrier master Brian Beggan after 30 years in the mastership in Kettles Hotel near Swords, Co Dublin.

The Chairman of the hunt, Helena Dawson, made a presentation of an inscribed Hunting Horn to Brian who was joined on the night by his wife Dolores, his son Bryan and his wife Laura, his brother Paul and wife Marie, and sister Mary.