THE Duhallow Hunt Branch of the Irish Pony Club held their first Connolly’s Red Mills/IPC eventing qualifier with Deirdre O’Leary in the role of District Commissioner on Bank Holiday Monday.

They marked the occasion with a return to Danny and Michelle Dulohery’s Kilguilkey House, where Danny set a testing, technical cross-country track. Happily, the damp weather conditions which had greeted competitors in the morning, had dried up in time for the final phase action.