Month: February 2020

Men and Dogs get no younger!

  First Published in Earth Dog Running Dog Magazine – 2016 Yesterday afternoon I was going out the door to exercise the dogs when I thought I would give Chipper a quick ring. I didn’t put it off because I knew I would forget by the time I got home and it had been a…
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Four and Twenty Black Birds

  First published in Irish Country Sports & Country Life Magazine, 2010 By the time you read this spring will have sprung and the season will be gone. My rabbiting work has almost finished apart from a few ferreting days still on the calendar, and a couple of nights ago I had what will probably…
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Dont Wear Buttons

  First Published in Irish Country Sports and Country Life Magazine, 2009 The Longnet has been in existence since the rabbit came to these shores via the Normans, and has been shrouded in mystery just as long. The skill of longnetting itself is looked upon as a black art, something which, if it really did…
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Irish Extra February 2020

  I missed the first Salmon report by the skin of my teeth last month, but was very pleased to hear The River Lennon in Co Donegal has, for the second time in three years, laid claim to the first wild salmon of the season in Ireland with a fine spring fish of 8lb on…
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