WHILE many of their fellow Branch members were competing in the Mackey Equestrian national hunter trials at Ballycahane Equestrian recently, two teams of Irish Pony Club members were in action in Wales at a friendly mounted games competition. This was hosted by the Berwyn and Dee Pony Club whose catchment area covers north Shropshire and the north-east of Wales.

The two teams comprised Tristan Furlong (Shillelagh), Chloe O’Shaughnessy (Laois), Lauren Callery (Meath), Lulu Fitzsimmons (Bray) and Lily Hatton (Carlow) whose father, Alan, trained this squad which ran under the Carlow banner, while Joan Fox trained the Laois squad made up of Paul Nolan (Wexford), Donnacha Malone (Kildare), Katie Fox (Tipperary), Cillian Tobin (Carlow) and Eva O’Shaughnessy (Laois).