Set fire to those fascinators — Ladies Day fashion needs a complete overhaul, says Annmarie O’Connor. Here’s her guide to style at the races.

The famous Fianna Fáil fundraising tent at the week-long Galway Races represents what is worst about the unregulated culture of political donations in Ireland, the Greens said today.

“IT’S all about the stamina, it’s about pace, it’s about not getting cryptosporidium and it’s about taking plenty of painkillers” — it could have been a bit of advice for the horse trainers on how to win the 5.45 in Ballybrit.

A month after the crypto outbreak was first reported in Galway, nothing has changed.

Ger Loughnane was robbed of his first real chance to run the rule over Galway's hurling talent as a waterlogged pitch saw today's Connacht Hurling League tie between the Galway Development squad and Roscommon called off.

THE Director of Consumer Affairs is to prosecute two well-known Galway hotels for charging more than the displayed prices for specific drinks during the busy race week.

FIANNA FÁIL headquarters has played down a row with grassroots members in Galway who have suggested its corporate tent at the Galway Races be scrapped on the grounds it is elitist.

THOUSANDS of people gathered in Dublin’s Phoenix Park last night for a multi-faith Sunset Remembrance service to mark the Pope’s funeral in Rome.

Declan Colley, Cheltenham

A MAN has told how he was almost killed by a frozen block of urine and water, which fell 30,000ft from an aeroplane toilet.