VIDEO: Punters keep their eyes on the prizes at 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.