MANY congratulations to Mark Coonan, a member of the well known Kildare hunting and racing family, and his beautiful bride Eimear O’Donovan from Co Tipperary, hosted their wedding reception last weekend, attended by 180 family and friends at The Cliff at Lyons in Co Kildare.

Mark’s father Dominick stood the National Hunt stallion Raise You Ten that sired Ten Up, the winner of the 1974 Sun Alliance Novices’ Chase and the 1975 Cheltenham Gold Cup, trained by Tom Dreaper and ridden by Tommy Carberry.