Point-to-point rider and trainer Niall Redmond gives his five-year-old daughter Emily Flavin-Redmond a lift across a deep river during hunting on Sunday. Her pony Cindy duly followed on behind during the joint meet of the Carlow Hunt and West Wicklow Foxhounds at Slaney Park near Baltinglass. Emily is a regular on the hunting field, as is her mother Debbie Flavin

Audrey O'Dwyer in action with the Kildare Foxhounds during heavy fog from The Brown Bear (Photo: Siobhan English Photography)

Killian Lynch MFH jumps a wall while hunting with the Muskerry Foxhounds (Photo: Catherine Power)

Brendan Brown and his lovely chesnut out hunting with the Muskerry Foxhounds (Photo: Catherine Power)

Laura Murphy, Sinead Hendrick, Moira and Nicola Kieran out hunting with the Muskerry Foxhounds (Photo: Catherine Power)

Robert Harkin takes on a wall while out with the Muskerry Foxhounds (Photo: Catherine Power)

Event rider Emily Taylor on her event horse at the Westmeath Foxhounds meet at Streamstown (Photo: Noel Mullins)

Brother and sister John and Lesley Smith hunting with the Westmeath Foxhounds at Streamstown (Photo: Noel Mullins)

Three generations of the Derwin family at the Westmeath Foxhounds meet: Ann (right), her son Jim (left) and grandchildren Aine, James and Frano (Photo: Noel Mullins)

Horse trainer and Westmeath Foxhounds joint-master Dot Love (left) and Susan Huschka at the Westmeath Foxhounds hunt meet at Streamstown (Photo: Noel Mullins)