I HEARD on the news that there is a shortage of Guinness in Britain… Well, there is no shortage in Fox’s Bar in Skryne and Declan and Irma know how to pour a creamy pint that you could trot a mouse on, as witnessed at the Tara Harriers meet there on the hunt’s 275th Anniversary.

There was a great buzz in the bar, a packed house of mounted and car followers. Another group in high spirits were up the road for the annual historic event that has gone on since the dawn of time in Newgrange, the site of the 5,200-year-old passage grave, older than the Pyramids of Egypt. They were waiting for the sun to come up to light the narrow chamber marking the Winter Solstice on the shortest day of the year, when the sun is at its lowest.