‘happy hunting, everyone’

Hunting can be an all-consuming passion – and lifestyle – but what about those long-suffering partners who are left behind? Tessa Waugh investigates

Tessa Waugh introduces her hunting husband to the “foreign” experience of an international horse trials, where a glamorous lunch party warms his initial froideur

With hunting under attack in the UK, how is the sport faring in Ireland? Octavia Pollock talks to the new chairman of the Irish Masters of Foxhounds Association, Pat Hayes, to find out

The seasonal break gives Tessa Waugh the opportunity to see and appreciate horses from another discipline, and she is mightily impressed on a visit to a top showing yard

Our reporter doesn’t find much rest, however, as the Green Spring Valley hounds give him a proper American scorcher of a hunt behind a coyote

Sharon Thomas on the appeal of local shows, an ill-timed back flip, the joyful chaos of entertaining children – and smuggled dogs