There, custom demanded that newly-wed couples be driven round the town in a horse-drawn carriage. "That," Lesley told the Observer in 1959, "was for me," so her father and mother advertised to ...

IN his first open season, Kerry Wainwright’s 10-year-old dapple grey stallion Skellorn Deja Vu defied his lack of experience to land the Connemara title at the Horse of the Year Show (HOYS ...