Abbeyfeale Harriers Festival Supporting Irish Cancer Society

Abbeyfeale Harriers Club Meeting in Scartaglin 14-2-2018

The scene from the door of Lyons’ Bar in Scartaglin as huntsmen gathered for the Abbeyfeale Harriers Charity Hunt Festival on Wednesday morning. ©Photograph: John Reidy

Mike O’Shea, Foilmore (left) pictured with Paddy O’Grady, Abbeyfeale and Stephen Riordan, Scartaglin gathering in Lyons’ Bar in Scartaglin for the Abbeyfeale Harriers Charity Hunt Festival on Wednesday morning. ©Photograph: John Reidy

Pádraig O’Connell and Bertie Cahill, Cordal pictured in Lyons’ Bar in Scartaglin for the start of the Abbeyfeale Harriers Charity Hunt Festival on Wednesday morning. ©Photograph: John Reidy

Tom Collins, Abbeyfeale Harriers (left) pictured with: Liscarroll Harriers members: Tom Crowley, Connie and Conor Lynch at the annual Abbeyfeale Harriers Hunting Festival which got under way in Scartaglin yesterday. ©Photograph: John Reidy

Tom Crowley, Liscarroll Harriers pictured in Scartaglin at the start of the Abbeyfeale Harriers Charity Hunt Festival on Wednesday morning. ©Photograph: John Reidy

The late John' O'Connor, Scartaglin (left) and the late Anthony Cronin, Castleisland - two avid huntsmen in whose memory the event in Scart was held yesterday. ©Photographs: John Reidy — The late John’ O’Connor, Scartaglin (left) and the late Anthony Cronin, Castleisland – two avid huntsmen in whose memory the event in Scart was held yesterday.
©Photographs: John Reidy

The Abbeyfeale Harriers began their annual charity hunt festival in Scartaglin yesterday, Wednesday, February 14th when they gathered at Lyons’ Bar for a day of hunting.

It was a day they dedicated to two men who would have been in their element in the company of men and hounds and the prospect of the open countryside.

Dedicated to Two Fallen Huntsmen

The events of the day were dedicated to the memory of lifelong huntsmen, John O’Connor from Scartaglin and Anthony Cronin from Castleisland.

The North Cork based, Carraigshane Harriers provided the hounds on the occasion.

Huntsmen and hounds gathered in the village on a morning that promised nothing in terms of weather but delivered a crisp and dry day and ideal conditions for the opening hunt of the 2018 festival.

Came From All Parts

They came from all parts of North Cork, West Limerick and South Kerry.

Today, Thursday, February 15th. the festival moves to Co. Limerick for a joint hunt with Rooves Bridge Harriers and Rockfield Harriers and they’ll be based at Shanahan’s Bar, Strand.

Hunt in Knocknagoshel

The final meet will be on Friday, February 16th at O’Connor’s Bar in Knocknagoshel between Tory Harriers and Mullinavat and District Harriers.

The hunts support The Irish Cancer Society and the late John O’Connor and Anthony Cronin would approve of that too.

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