Galway Races: Punters ride out storm at Ballybrit

After four days of wind, rain, winners and losers, weary punters were running on fumes after the madness of Ladies’ Day — Galway style.

Thursday of race week is always a drunken orgy, and this year was no different. There was little sign of the recession in Galway City in the traditional hotspots of Quay St and the Radisson Hotel. Pubs are never slow in Galway, but race week takes the City of the Tribes to a whole new level.

Never mind getting into bars, you were lucky to get onto Quay St on Thursday.