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CO LIMERICK 20 December
IN KENNELS
Joint-masters: John Halley, Niall Foley, Emma Thompson
Huntsman: Fergus Stokes
Whipper-in: David Beecher
Hounds: 35 couple of old English foxhounds
Hon secretary: Deirdre Hogan, t: +353 86 8137188
Hunting days: Wednesday and Saturday
Neighbouring packs: Scarteen, Duhallow, Stonehall Harriers, Limerick Harriers
Hirelings: contact secretary
Co Limerick, Kilmeedy, Ireland
THEY take no prisoners with the Co Limerick Foxhounds; one of the great old English packs, hunting a fearsome bank and ditch country, with a consummate professional carrying the horn and some of Ireland’s best horsemen and women following. You venture into Limerick with a good horse and a hardened heart or you don’t go at all.
Fergus Stokes has hunted the Limerick hounds since 2012. A plain-spoken Cork man, he cut his teeth in the Duhallow country, where he whipped-in to the late Ger Withers.
“We were great friends,” he says of Ger. “He was always great for advice when I started.”
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