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Labour City Councillor Niall McNelis has called for a late night bus service to support businesses and sure staff get home safely.

30,000 football fans, 130,000 racegoers, 800 horses, 5,000 bottles of champagne, 4,000 hot beef rolls — these are just some of the mindnumbing stats that will sum up Galway this Sunday when the merging of the All-Ireland Football Final, the Galway International Arts Festival and the Galway Races collide to create one of the weekends of the summer.

With less than seven weeks to go to Ireland’s leading horse racing festival, Galway Racecourse has announced a new guest judge, popular social media influencer Rachel Gorry, as a new guest judge for the Galway Races Summer Festival,

Two days of racing from this year’s Galway Races Summer Festival will be broadcast live on TG4 on Friday and Saturday July 29/30.

Only 1,000 spectators will be permitted to attend each day of the Galway Races summer festival.

Crowds of up to 5,000 a day could attend the Galway Races in August given that a “thorough and detailed plan” exists to accommodate race-goers “in a safe manner”.

This week Galway Races chief executive Michael Moloney looked out his window, which overlooks the parade ring at Ballybrit. He struggled to believe one of the greatest race meetings in the world, The Galway Races Summer Festival, had fallen victim to Covid-19.

Some 150,000 punters are set to flock into the city over the next week as Galway Races celebrates its 150th birthday with a bumper meeting full of special events.

Prize money at the Galway Races will total a record-breaking €2.3 million next month as the country's largest horse racing event celebrates its 150th summer festival.

Four Galway women are to be honoured for their excellence at the Irish Women’s Awards 2019 which will be held in Dublin later this month.