Sika stags, late summer. Photo copyright P. Donegan.

The candidates listed below all completed their two-stage Deer Alliance Hunter Competence Assessment Programme with their Range Test at the Midland Range, Blue Ball, Tullamore on Saturday 8th March 2025. Thanks, as always, go to the Midland Range management and personnel, including Tony Saunders and J. P. Craven, and to Deer Alliance Range Officers Liam McGarry and Pat Scully. Successful candidates received their HCAP Certificates and ID cards from HCAP Course Director, Liam M. Nolan. Congratulations to Jennifer Chicharro and Orsolya Kami Nemethne, who now join the ranks of those women candidates who have completed HCAP. Jennifer was “top gun”, with competition-level marksmanship.

NEW HCAP-CERTIFIED CANDIDATES, DATE OF CERTIFICATION 8th MARCH 2025:

ATKINSON, James, 2025/0008
BARRY, David, 2025/0036
BUCKLEY, Kevin, 2025/0019
CAREY, John, 2025/0034
CHICHARRO, Jennifer, 2025/0022
CONSIDINE, Mark, 2025/0024
DONOHOE, Tommy, 2025/0007
DUMITRU, Claudiu, 2025/0037
EARLE, Edward, 2025/0009
GALLAGHER, Matthew, 2025/0025
HENNESSY, Sean, 2025/0016
HOWARD, John, 2025/0039
KELLY, David, 2025/0029
KING, Conor, 2025/0024
KISKIUNAS, Augustinas, 2025/0041
LEONARD, Douglas, 2025/0027
MANGAN, Shane, 2025/0030
MARTIN, Dylan, 2025/0020
MATTHEWS, Daniel John, 2025/0028
McBRIEN, Hugh, 2025/0032
MILEY, Gary, 2025/0033
MOORE, Arran, 2025/0038
MURPHY, Killian S., 2025/0011
NEMETHNE, Orsolya Kami, 2024/0115
O’NEILL, Anthony, 2025/0013
PARR, Jamie, 2025/0021
ROCHE, Adam, 2025/0010
RYAN, James, 2025/0023
SOMERS, Brian, 2025/0018
SPILLANE, Eoghain, 2025/0026
TIMOTHY, Ronan, 2025/0006
WINDER, Thomas, 2025/0017

The list of successful candidates included members of IFA Countryside, who benefited from a 40% subsidy of the ordinary HCAP fee, courtesy of IFA Farm Business Skillnet. Successful candidates are enrolled as members of the Association of HCAP-Certified Hunters except where they have opted out of membership. Candidates who were No-Shows or Deferrals at this Range Test will remain eligible to participate in the next scheduled Range Test in 2025 except where they have missed two or more earlier events. Reminders are not issued. The next Range Test will take place on Saturday 10th May 2025.

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