Neptune Group (Co.Down)

Based in London and County Down, the “Neptune Group is a UK-based property company, specialising in urban regeneration and property investment.” Creighton Boyd – one of the two individuals who established Neptune Group – is the chairperson of the South Tyrone Foxhounds. This hunt is affiliated with the Irish Masters of Foxhounds Association and the Irish Masters of Harriers Association. A listing for the South Tyrone hunt in the Irish Field hunting directory shows that Creighton Boyd, with a @neptunegroup.com email address, is the chairperson. A 3 March 2023 report in the Irish Field detailed how the South Tyrone hunt’s pack of 39 hounds terrorised foxes. Running for their lives, the foxes were described by the huntsman as “kind as they ran the right way” – in other words, in a country where (shamefully) fox hunting is still legal, the hunters were thanking the foxes for fleeing for their lives as it would give them better ‘sport’…