Heavy rain fails to dampen punters’ spirits at Galway Races

Well after a glorious week, it finally came. Rain and in biblical proportions.

There have been quite a few famous weather years in Galway and Friday of 2015 took the biscuit. After so much drinking, punting and carousing, it was like the Gods decided it was time to put a stop to the debauchery and opened the heavens.

Not that it stopped the crowds. If there is one thing that defy all logic and reason, it is the Galway punting crowd. Most sensible people would have opened their curtains, looked skyward and said ‘No chance’, but still out they came. Hats, high heels the works. Umbrella sellers were out in force and at a fiver a pop, they cleaned up.