LOOKING at the Traditional Irish Horse Association (TIHA) activities throughout 2024, you’d hope Santa Claus delivered a handsome cheque for projects or that future Ministers in the next government note this voluntary committee’s budget-stretching abilities.

Promoting traditional breeding - a combination of thoroughbred, Irish Draught and Connemara bloodlines - on a minuscule budget, understood to be under €20,000 per annum, surely ranks as a labour of love. If not an outright uphill battle.