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The Galway Races Summer Festival Ball that took place in August has raised €92,172 for jockey Graham Lee. An additional €11,686 was donated by Tote for the Irish Injured Jockeys Fund.

University of Galway Professor Pat Dolan has been presented with the Medal of the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw for life-long work and achievements in the field of children’s rights.

It has to be the year of the Shark, that’s John ‘Shark’ Hanlon from County Carlow. He bought a horse called Hewick. He didn’t pay dearly for it (not even a thousand euro) and then won the Galway Plate last summer. He added another win at Sandown, and between the two he pocketed half a million euro. Not bad for a year’s work. But just last October he won the American Grand National at Fair Hills in New Jersey with a $160,000 dollar first prize. Now he is 33/1 to take the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March. D’ya think, maybe.

"The last mile is never crowded and that’s the way it does feel sometimes. The difference is to be able to hold on in there, to keep it going."

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The Galway Camogie team received 12 nominations for this year’s All Stars. Congrats to Sarah Healy, Shauna Healy, Sarah Dervan, Dervla Higgins, Caitriona Cormican, Siobhán Gardiner, Emma Helebert, Niamh Kilkenny, Aoife Donohue, Siobhán McGrath, Orlaith McGrath, and Ailish O’Reilly. And the Galway manager Cathal Murray has been named the Manager of the Year. A mighty year’s work.

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Just days before her historic win aboard Minella Times in the Aintree Grand National, Rachael Blackmore took time from her busy schedule to send a quick support call-to-action to the facilities development committee at Athenry Camogie Club. Just over one month ago, the club launched a very ambitious plan to buy, build and develop their very own facilities. Their WinAHouseAndCar initative has garnered a lot of interest locally and nationally.

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