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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Sally arrived with me sort of by accident. I never had any intentions of a whippet after the death of my Lurcher bitch “Bella”. I’ll spare you the long story of how her coming to be here, but at 12 weeks old she did and from day one she never was much of…
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March is an odd month for on the calendar for me as it one which well and truly puts a stop to any proper country sports. With Game Shooting finishing in January, we hold onto February for dear life with many Saturday ferreting days and mid-week lamping sessions heralded as the last of the season…
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I was recently approached by a local marina owner and asked to remove a family of mink that had taken up residence amongst the pontoon walkways that ran alongside the moored barges. They had decimated the local moorhen and duck population that regular visitors to the nearby canal-side restaurant had been used to seeing…
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By Cathal Hughes (Pro Fire Widlfowling) A morning wildfowling on Lough Neagh starts for me on a Friday evening shortly after finishing work in which I would have spent most of the day thinking on how I would be setting out the decoy spread. After methodically thinking and deciding on how the lay…
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I took the dog pup out with me last Thursday night for a few runs, just locally & just to let him let off a bit of steam. These pups are noticeably different than to the older generation from which they have stemmed from. That dash of Irish terrier breeding has certainly added some fuel…
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Irish Extra February 2021 We have had a couple of days of light snow as I write and it has been very welcome. I find that snow brings a certain calm to the countryside and I always enjoy a roam about in it. I had the truck loaded up on Friday night and I…
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