HAVING recently returned from a successful trip to Hickstead, and preparing to face the ‘Big Wall’ at the Dublin Horse Show in August, Co Waterford-based producer Paddy O’Donnell is open about the way things have improved, but also disimproved in show jumping in Ireland.

“Both my parents have been heavily involved in horses my whole life, that’s how they made a living. I grew up here in our home place Kilfarissey, Co Waterford and was always surrounded by horses,” O’Donnell told The Irish Field.