First published in Irish Country Sports & Country Life, Winter 2019. A beautiful November morning and the only sound I could hear was the rustling of the grass behind me as a 5 month old Teckel “Poppy” (I didn’t name her my wife did) did her best behind me to keep up, she was…
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From Steve Caple – I have had a few enquiries just lately about the quick release fence snares that I use and how they are constructed and utilised. Anybody who has tried to tie, or worse still, untie a snare that has been directly fixed to a fence with frozen fingers in the depths of…
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I have just returned from a particularly long and hard day ferreting. It was too warm; the brambles were too thick and the rabbits were too small for the nets! Ferreting at this time of the year is never ideal and I usually avoid it like the plague if possible but this particular…
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Keeping up appearances While Ireland is very gradually moving out of lock down and restrictions are beginning to ease, its great to see life return to normal. Many events and dog shows are returning across the country and I am looking forward to getting out and about to a few of them. I have…
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The Northern Ireland hunting community has once again come under attack by the Alliance Party, a Northern Ireland political group with an opposition to country sports. John Blair, an MLA for the Alliance Party is aiming to bring forward a private members bill to ban hunting in Northern Ireland, a bill declared by The…
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