Galway nets finish line stage of Ocean Race

GALWAY will be the finish line for the next staging of the world’s most prized maritime race and organisers have called on the country to row in behind the effort.

The Volvo Ocean Race picked the City of the Tribes ahead of 34 competing ports, which bid for three European stopovers, and the final 2011-2012 shortlist had 15 locations to choose from.

However, chief executive of the race, Knut Frostad, said the vibrancy of the welcome Galway gave to the race last summer clinched the deal.