This year is the 10th anniversary of the Garry O'Sullivan memorial drag-hunt , Garry had given over 50 years of service to a sport that he loved, he held many positions within the C,C,C,H,A over the years being chairman , public relations officer & secretary of northern hunt, Garry was also a huntsman for northern hunt.
Over the years Garry built up a great rapport with the farming community to which was a benefit to the C,C,C,H,A adding new courses to the drag hunting calendar , Ballynoe, Rylane, clare castle, Ballinagree & Rathduff the venue for his own memorial drag this weekend to name a few.
Garry was 2nd generation into drag hunting following in the foot steps of his father jackie & uncle florry who along with a few others were the founder members of northern hunt in 1925,
Garry's children , Gary & martina 3rd generation, along with grandson adam 4th generation (vice chairman ) & nephew john & niece janet are all activley involved in the sport today, with adams son Isaac sure to follow in the drag-hunting tradition of the 0'Sullivan family.
Garry had his share of success in the sport along with his brother Sean O'Sullivan winning 6 internationals in various grades over the years & twice runner up in the All Ireland, his son gary & adam had their big day in 2008 landing the Senior All Ireland with Black & Tan to which i'm sure put a big smile on garry's face .
Garry was also very popular over in cumbria and travelled there many times over a 20 year period building great friend ships with the late birkett lawson , george & joe lawson & edward & lena gibson.
A memorial trail was held in cumbria each year for garry which was started by birkett lawson & that trophy was brought over to Ireland last year by tom newell & will be presented to the puppy maiden winner this sunday.
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GARRY O'SULLIVAN
14th june 1939-6th november 2002
all trainers please note the senior pups will be off at 2.30pm & senior hounds @ 3.30pm.
on behalf of brenda, gary, martina & adam i would like to wish everyone the best of luck of sunday.
god bless
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