Ireland

Horse Sport Ireland gets funding for equine training

Horse Sport Ireland has received €90,000 (£74,600) government funding through Skillnet to run training courses for people working in equestrianism in 2010-11

Ireland names majority of World Equestrian Games team

Ireland has named the majority of its team of riders heading for the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky this September

Is a one-off horse cull the answer to Irish welfare problems?

Suggestions that a free, one-off cull of unwanted horses may be the way to deal with Irish welfare problems have been met with sad agreement by an Irish charity

British ladies triumph over Irish at in polocrosse test matches

The UK took on Ireland in a series of four test matches over the weekend of the 24-25 July at Celyn Polocrosse Club, near Chester

Polocrosse test matches to be shown on Sky Sports

Polocrosse fans will be able to review games from the UK Polocrosse Association’s test match series against Ireland this weekend (24-25 July) on Sky Sports.

Irish parliament votes to ban stag hunting and the Ward Union

TDs voted to ban stag hunting by the narrow margin of 75 votes to 72 last night (Tuesday)

Ireland set to take only five eventers to WEG due to cost

Ireland is likely to only field five eventers, rather than the permitted six, at this autumn’s World Equestrian Games, due to the cost of flying horses to the USA

New international events to be run at Ballindenisk and Camphire

Irish riders are celebrating news of two new international events

Mixed response to Horse Sport Ireland's new stallion grading

Horse Sport Ireland’s (HSI) new regime of sport horse stallion inspections has been met with a mixed reaction from Irish breeders

Goresbridge to stage first Irish show pony sale

Breeder and producers of show ponies in Ireland have a new outlet to showcase stock

Ginny Elliot signs up again to train Ireland's Olympic eventing hopefuls

The eventing star has renewed her contract with Horse Sport Ireland in the run up to the 2012 Olympics

Hunting supporters protest to Irish prime minister

Two hundred members of RISE! greeted Brian Cowen as he opened a leisure centre in Roscrea, County Tipperary.

Hunting ban plan for Northern Ireland is 'not a serious threat'

The Green Party has shown its true colours by calling for hunting to be banned in Northern Ireland

Thousands of hunting supporters join march in Ireland

Around 6,000 hunting supporters demonstrated outside the Irish Green Party’s conference last Saturday in protest against the planned ban on stag hunting

Irish apprentice jockey killed in accident on the gallops

Twenty-one-year old Ronan Lawlor died yesterday morning (Tuesday 16 February) when he was thrown from a horse on the gallops in Co Carlow

Irish farmer jailed for cruelty in Ireland's 'worst equine welfare case'

A Kilkenny farmer has been jailed for 23 months and banned from keeping animals for life following Ireland’s worst equine welfare case

Campaign against Irish hunting ban hots up

Campaigning against an Irish hunting ban has notched up a gear with the launch of Rural Ireland Says Enough (RISE)

Irish showjumpers pledge Nations Cup winnings to Haiti relief

Any winnings won by the Irish at Abu Dhabi Nations Cup will go to the disaster relief fund

Four dead horses found on Irish golf course

Decomposing bodies of four horses have been found on a disused golf course in Blarney, Co Cork

Irish politicians call for free vote on hunting ban

Backbenchers in the Irish parliament are calling for a free vote on a bill which could ban stag hunting ban in the Republic