It’s a week that feels like a year but the ome stretch is in sight after we got over the hump of Ladies Day.

THIS weekend marks the official holiday exodus of our public policy makers.

HEALTH Service Executive staff in Galway have been given leave to attend the Galway Races despite reductions in staffing levels and cutbacks in frontline services across the organisation.

IT’S the weekend of the great exodus as tens of thousands of people prepare to travel to festivals around the country to celebrate the August bank holiday.