OPENING meets are always special but when it is at Curraghmore for the Waterford Foxhounds and a lawn meet to boot, it goes even beyond that. Curraghmore is synonymous with all that is best in hunting in Waterford and indeed the hunt was originally known as the Curraghmore Hounds. The estate is steeped in all things of the horse and as we drove in the long avenue (it must be more than a mile), race horses were being unboxed and tacked up on the gallops and schooling grounds which are widely used by trainers in that part of the country.

We pressed on, we had a much more important mission, to see enjoy and report on young Niall Dunne and his pack of old English Foxhounds. We weren’t to be disappointed!