IT’S the Galway Races 2021 and we have 7,000 more people in attendance over the week than the 2020 edition but most of us are still banned and ‘at home’.

Even the latest RTÉ racing front man Hugh Cahill is missing from the coverage this week with Hugh on Olympic duty and into the hot seat stepped Ruby Walsh for the first two days. Jane Mangan and Fran Berry are alongside for Monday.