VIDEO: Punters keep their eyes on the prizes at the Galway Races

Well, it’s that time of the year again. Stomachs are lined, livers are steeled, and wallets are stuffed for the summer party that is the Galway Races.

As a Galway man myself, it is always a bit of marathon. You mix work with the pleasure of spending a week in your home city — albeit your home city packed to the rafters with crazy racegoers.

With the Galway Arts Festival just ending and the Ballybrit extravaganza just started, these are always a heady few weeks in the West. Having arrived a few days early myself, I am already struggling before I’ve even started. Time waits for no man and you age an average of two years by spending a week partying in Galway during race week.