1915 Dangerous visitors The pickpockets, on the whole, had a poor time. The English “crooks” have been so well watched that, for the present, at any...
IT was a remarkable Galway summer festival in more ways than one, not least that the seven-day meeting miraculously escaped some poor weather forecasts, a...
The Galway Races have often been blamed for punters ‘losing their shirts’ but they have also been held accountable for a dip in the local cattle...
Dermot Weld may be the King of Ballybrit but Meath trainer Tony Martin could soon be knighted as the champion of the Galway Summer Festival after...
A big gamble was landed when bottom weight Modem gave the mother and daughter combination of Jessica and Kate Harrington the perfect start to the week-long...
Some city families are allegedly being be ‘turfed out’ of their temporary hotel room homes this week to free up capacity for the lucrative Race Week...
Gardai and the city’s traffic management centre will be monitoring the flow of traffic across Galway during the Races. A colour-coded route system for traffic management...
It may not be back to its Celtic Tiger heyday when the skies resembled Vietnam, but early bookings for the 2015 Galway Races show that Ballybrit...
