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The craic will most definitely be 90 at the Ballinrobe Races on Monday evening next, August 8, as the 90th anniversary of racing in Ballinrobe is celebrated.

More than 50,000 revellers are set to head to the city from tomorrow as Galway gets ready for its busiest weekend of the year.

“The Galway Races are unique in Irish sport. For this is a real Connaught holiday. Caravans and their picturesque owners are making their trek weeks ahead. Urgent farm work is abandoned for an hour. Business and professional men; regular race-goers, hunting folk, farmers of all ranges of acreage, holiday trippers from the eastern cities; Connemara and Aran Island men and maids who speak English only, are here in colourful buoyant groups. All the fun of the fair; huge fields of beautiful horses; thrilling finishes and good priced winners — all lend glamour and life to this great outdoor festival of the west.

Fresh from the hugely successful Ladies’ Day meeting, the mid-summer racing festival takes centre stage at Ballinrobe Racecourse this Monday and Tuesday, July 18 and 19. Racing starts both days at 5.50pm.

AND they’re off! With only a week to go to Ladies Day at the Galway Races - one of the most exciting events on the Irish fashion calendar, Kadee Boutique will visit Galways “g” hotel to offer a helping hand to all fashion followers seeking the perfect ladies day ensemble by offering 50 per cent off sensational summer stock next Sunday July 17 from 2-6pm.

And they’re off! With just three weeks to go, the countdown is on to the most glamorous fashion event of the year. The cream of Irish fashionistas are donning their glad rags ready to go head to head for the coveted title of Best Dressed Lady at the Galway Races.

Do you fancy winning a pair of tickets to a day’s racing at Ballybrit? With just ten days to go until it all starts at the Galway Races, the Galway Race office and the Galway Advertiser are giving you a chance to win tickets for a fabulous day out at the course. There are two ways to enter. You can enter our postcard competition, by putting your name, address on a card and dropping it in or posting it to the Galway Advertiser, Eyre Square, Galway. or by entering the competitions on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/galwayadvertiser

It is that time of year again when staff at the four star Ardilaun hotel, Taylor’s Hill are busy preparing for another busy Galway Race Week Festival. One of the highlights this year will be a unique event in conjunction with the National Breast Cancer Research Institute (NBCRI) with lunch, fashion, and races fever on Tuesday July 26 at the hotel, with proceeds on the day going to this very worthy charity.

The crowds flocked to Ballinrobe Racecourse for its first meeting of the year and the course committee will be hoping for another successful meeting this coming Monday and Tuesday, May 30 and 31, in what is the 90th anniversary of the Mayo track.

Another young man has lost his life in an accident on a farm in Coolagh just a few miles from Callan in County Kilkenny.