Full circle and forward

COUNTRY SPORTS AND COUNTRY LIFE is the new quarterly journal for
all things ‘country’ in Ireland. Designed to complement the web
site, www.countrysportsandcountrylife.com, it will provide a high
quality ‘hard copy’ product that frees the reader from the computer
screen. As well as covering all aspects of field and country sports
in Ireland, the new journal will also bring you a wide range of
features on country living, visiting the great estates of Ireland,
looking at wildlife, homes and gardens, food and drink, and country
art and crafts.

Although the title is new, the magazine’s credentials are already
well-established, for COUNTRY SPORTS AND COPUNTRY LIFE is simply
the beginning of a new era for Ireland’s longest established field
sports magazine with a title many readers will already know –
Irish HUNTING SHOOTING & FISHING.

Irish HUNTING SHOOTING & FISHING magazine was first launched
in April 1985 by Albert Titterington, one of Ireland’s best-known
fieldsportsmen and founder of the Northern Ireland Game Fair,
now Ireland’s largest annual country sports event. “At that
time, fieldsports were under considerable threat and concurrently,
there were a great many environmental issues that needed to be
addressed and brought to public attention.”

Sixteen years on, it is not just field sports and the environment
that is under threat, but the entire country way of life, and
co-publishers, Albert Titterington and Emma Cowan have recognised
the need to once again provide a unified voice for the Irish countryside.
“The unique combination of the Country Sports and Country
Life web site and magazine will bring country issues right to
the forefront in Ireland, combining the strength of a traditional
journal to grace any coffee table with the huge potential and
wide reach of the Internet.”

In a neat twist that links the magazine’s history to its future,
the first cover of Country Sports and Country Life, like the first
ever issue of its forerunner, Irish Hunting Shooting and Fishing,
will feature a pair of Braddells from the long established Belfast
gunmaker Joseph Braddell.

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