THE end of an era was marked last week when it was announced publicly that Eamon and Karen O’Flynn had sold their land at Kircubbin on the Ards Peninsula where they had held Eventing Ireland one-day events for 23 years.

“We really enjoyed hosting the events and dealing with the eventing people but things change,” explained Eamon who was also course builder at the Co Down venue. “We were approached to sell the land by a neighbouring farmer who milks 600 cows and decided to go for it.