BROOKFIELD Farm is based in Ballina, Co Mayo, where we have a small, self-sufficient farm of just under 48 acres on the town outskirts. We keep an average of 25-30 horses at most, which I normally buy as foals and, in recent years, we’ve dabbled in breeding.

It all started in 1979. My late father, Tiernan Snr, bought a Shetland pony called Beauty to eat the grass around the house, because a ride-on lawnmower was too expensive at the time. And that’s when I got the horse bug.