A TIPPERARY woman through and through, I live near Nenagh, an area steeped in horse history. George, my husband and son David are dairy farming. David has a degree in Agriculture and is in his first year in the Arrabawn Co Op graduate programme. Denis, our other son and ‘football’s lost legend!’ as he describes himself, is an engineer with Irving Oil in Cork. George and I both work for Irish Rail.

I’ve always loved horses, but a bad fall in my late 20s stopped me doing anything with horses for over 15 years. But, as anyone involved with horses knows, the longing never really goes away, so George and I went to the 2008 IDHBA show we saw advertised in the Irish Farmers Journal.