LAST Saturday saw the west Limerick pack, the Stonehall Harriers meet at Wyeth’s, just outside the market town of Askeaton in Co Limerick. Wyeth’s are world leaders in infant nutrition and have a major factory and a huge local employer in Askeaton.

Like most harriers they are a mid-day pack, but huntsman Jamie Crosse does not hang around and, once the angelus has rung, he is away. Hunting an all-harrier pack of 28 hounds, he corrected me when I asked him how any couple he had out, saying “harriers are more correctly counted as singles not couples, as they were traditionally trencher fed”.