UP to 14 people who attended a taster session at Polo Wicklow could be in line to get hooked and catch the polo bug.

The half-day group session included a tour of the arena polo centre’s stables and tack rooms with talks by Polo Wicklow’s manager Siobhan Herbst about polo in Ireland, safety and the pony itself and its training before moving on to a round of foot polo and the first ride with stick and ball in the arena’s confines.