ALL joking aside, the Duhallow Hunt members are swopping their hunting boots for dancing shoes and glitter balls as the ‘Duhallow Does Strictly’ on April 1st next.

Training is being taken very seriously with 33 intrepid individuals being put through their paces with 13 couples taking part on the evening and the remaining seven individuals undertaking a group dance. Many local well known personalities have been persuaded to take to the dance floor at the Edel Quin Hall, Kanturk. The couples include Maurice Coleman, veteran field-master and Horse Sport Ireland inspector, who dances with Diana McLernon, sister of famous National Hunt jockey Ritchie McLernon, Pat Coleman, secretary of the hunt, dances with Meelin native Siobhan Twomey, daughter of well known horseman Miah Twomey.