Irish showjumper Billy Twomey breaks into world top 10
Irish showjumper Billy Twomey has broken into the world’s top 10 showjumpers for the first time
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Co Antrim horse rescuers believe some equines were stolen
Rescuers who helped lift 66 horses from “a sea of filth” believe some of the animals may belong to people who thought them lost or stolen
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Dermott Lennon is final member of Irish WEG SJ team
The Irish showjumping team will feature the same riders who won the Aachen Nations Cup earlier this year
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Irish horse welfare — a diary of a news investigation
Horse & Hound sent deputy news editor Charlotte White to Ireland to find out why Irish charities are overflowing with unwanted and rescued horses. This is a diary of her trip
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Buy Irish and support the country's horse industry
Today’s Horse & Hound (19 August) includes a special report on Ireland’s horse welfare problems — held by charities to be the worst ever
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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)
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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
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New international events to be run at Ballindenisk and Camphire
Irish riders are celebrating news of two new international events
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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
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Goresbridge to stage first Irish show pony sale
Breeder and producers of show ponies in Ireland have a new outlet to showcase stock
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
