“SURREAL” is how Niamh O’Halloran described last Wednesday watching ring side with her 11-day-old son Colí as her husband Bryan and father Tommy competed for the 2024 Supreme Connemara Pony Championship at the Clifden Show.

After deliberations by the judging party of Kevin Bolger, Feichín King, Liam Cotter, Sean King and Jane Andrews, her husband Bryan O’Halloran was called forward with the couple’s mare, Cabra Jane, as Supreme Champion. The five-year-old by Hillside Joker had earlier won the four- to five-year-old mare class, improving on her blue ribbon finish the previous year.