Ballybrit fundraiser to honour Woodlawn man’s 68 years’ racing

Date Published: 30-Jul-2009

FOR 68 years, Bill Earls, from Woodlawn, attended Galway Races without missing a day of the Festival he loved so much as a devoted punter.

Bill died just a year ago, but the legend lives on ……. on Friday, relatives and friends of Bill Earls are to take over Ballybrit to commemorate his anniversary.

If not a total takeover, they will certainly be able to raise a cheer all of their own in the Killanin Stand – 440 of them will be in the Killanin Suite on Friday.

The big event in memory of Bill – and in aid of Galway Hospice – is being organised by his daughter Regina McMahon, who wanted to remember her dad, and pay a special tribute to the work of the Galway Hospice and the hospice’s home care team, who looked after Bill when he became ill.

Regina, the youngest of Bill and Teresa Earls’ thirteen daughters and sons, said this week that she got the idea of holding a special event around Galway Races in memory of her dad, but also as…