Recent content by ruggly

Oh dear,now I have no excuse.....maybe if I said I had no friends at all???? Mmm! maybe not, I shall just have to put my bolts in my knees and be adventurous :0/ Coillte men with clip boards now that's really scary.....our coillte men usually carry cups of tea....and I'm not sure they have...

Teehee!!!! coillte staff probably spend most their day removing the jumps us hackers put up so nicely. three foot jumps Mmm! sounds like the puissance to me ;0D Permits are €100, but I tend to think if you were to use your local cross country course 3 or 4 times a week with your own horse...

Hi Nato, you answered your own question about behaviour....if you say you want to get it sorted before summers out....then it's seasonal not behavioural??? ;0) My vet offered my pone steroids but I'm afraid I balked at these as apparently they can trigger laminitis, and as I'm paranoid enough I...

Hi all, East clares do hunt round here through the season (Kilanena) but our lot ere the Turkey Trotters, all very nice just with slightly suicidal tendencies, and as I don't do "Really really brave" I tend to just stick to my hacking. Slieve Aughty isn't too far and the centre there is run by a...

hi irish gal, I'm border clare/galway just outside gort...we're really lucky hacking wise, I live within coillte land, so there's miles of tracks to go at, We do have the odd charity ride locally, it's so nice to find someone from the emerald isle......I really miss the bridle paths of the uk...

Aah! I'm sure you will have a lovely time.....though I can't guarantee the weather, this is Ireland if you worry about the weather you would never leave the house ;0) Enjoy yourself and make sure you have a half a Guinness as the black stuff over here is sooooo much better than the English...

Hi there!! I'm a uk ex pat over in county clare....is there anyone here over in the west:) Horsey/pony owners.....happy hackers.....although I see myself on a shiny 17:2 doing dressage.....I'm afraid my white jods stay wrapped in tissue in the wardrobe. I'm more the black dusty jods, and the...

Hi everyone (my first post) I live within forestry commission land in Ireland, my last horse was a headshaker, I sold her to someone who lived near the coast and she stopped almost straight away.....I am now riding a horse that started headshaking in spring this year (age 5) I tried piriton...