Hallie Crowe on her dun Connemara Pony Fergie's Bar at the Tara Harriers meet in Kilmessan \ Noel Mullins

Owner of Irish Draught stallion Clonneen Clover Diamond Fionn Campbell and Charlotte Mangan hunting with the Fingal Harriers from The Nags Head \ Noel Mullins

Stephanie and Martin Horan and James Hyland at Fergie's Bar at the Tara Harriers meet in Kilmessan \ Noel Mullins

Katie Murray at the Ballymacads Ladies day at Knockbrack Grange\ Mark Wiseman

Kelda Jauvert \ Mark Wiseman

Jen Bonham, Derval Diamond, Tatianna and Madelina Ormiston, Kate Hyland and Eileen Farrelly at the Ballymacads Ladies day at Knockbrack Grange \ Mark Wiseman

Fermanagh Harriers members- Geraldine Reilly, Pamela McCaughey, Caitriona Conlan Dempsey (Joint master Fermanagh Harriers and Honorary Secretary HAI and IMHA), Louise Fawcett and Louise Presho at the Ballymacads Ladies day at Knockbrack Grange \ Mark Wiseman

Linda Kenny gets an impressive leap over the ditch, all the better that it's her first time hunting, at the Ballymacads Ladies day at Knockbrack Grange \ Mark Wiseman

Nollaig Healy at the Ballymacads Ladies day at Knockbrack Grange\ Mark Wiseman

Rosita Dunne 'never without a smile' at the Ballymacads Ladies day at Knockbrack Grange \ Mark Wiseman

Donal O’Riordan (Secretary) and Chantal Lynch making it safely through the river out with the Muskerry Foxhounds \ Catherine Power

Equestrian Artisrt Liam Clancy outside Scully’s Bar waiting for hounds to move off \ Catherine Power

Aoife O’Riordan takes the river in her stride out with the Muskerry Foxhounds \ Catherine Power

Ken Grandon MFH and huntsman of the Muskerry Foxhounds views his quarry away \ Catherine Power

Cathriona and Trevor Palmer enjoying a day with the Duhallow Foxhounds from Ballyclough \ Siobhan English

Duhallow Foxhounds' joint-master Pat Hayes at the meet from Ballyclough \ Siobhan English

Emily Palmer (9) is a regular on the hunting field along with her parents Cathriona and Trevor and all attended the meet of the Duhallow Foxhounds from Ballyclough \ Siobhan English

Jane Roche, Edmund Dick MFH, Tim Corballis and Brian Murphy MFH enjoying the joint meetof the Waterford and North Kilkenny Foxhounds \ Catherine Power

Bill Healy MFH negotiating a tricky bank \ Catherine Power

Paul Doyle, Deirdre Rafter, Johnny Kiely MFH and Tanya Heffernan out with the North Kilkenny and the Waterford Foxhounds \ Catherine Power