LAWN meets are always special, but the meet at Cartown was extra so, as it was a commemorative meet for the late Paul Kennedy MFH, who grew up and man and boy lived his life on the family farm. Cut short, having barely reached the biblical three score and ten, nevertheless he fitted in an awful lot of life (much of it on the back of a horse) on the ancestral acres of Cartown.

Hunting and horses were part of the DNA of Cartown, a stunning sporting estate almost on the Shannon estuary and located between the adjacent West Limerick villages of Kildimo and Pallaskenry. His father, George, was master and huntsman of the local Stonehall Harriers and hounds had their summer kennels there.