STARTING Monday, July 29th, Galway Racecourse will stage its 150th Summer Festival. For a century and a half, people from all over Ireland and abroad have been going to Galway in their tens of thousands to enjoy the highly anticipated, now seven-day extravaganza. This year will be an extra special one.

Prize money has been boosted to a record-breaking level of over €2.3 million, an increase of more than €250,000 on last year.