IF you want something done, ask a busy person and they don’t come much busier than Dora Beacom, event co-ordinator for the Northern Region of Eventing Ireland and, of course, a judge and safety officer with Show Jumping Ireland.

Dora spent much of last week and all of Saturday preparing for that night’s regional awards ball in the Stormont Hotel, Belfast where she hardly sat for longer than 15 minutes at a time as she organised the awards presentation, the auction and the ballot.