FOLLOWING a publicly peaceful start to 2025, Irish Horse World readers began to learn that division still existed on the Connemara pony scene.

Lesley Hunter-Nolan has mainly taken the lead when it comes to reporting on the politics of the breed society, but it was IHW editor Judith Faherty whose report in the issue of Saturday, January 18th appeared under the heading ‘New entity formed to secure Clifden Show’.