Blustery weather drives hatters mad

THE inclement weather played havoc with the myriad of home-made creations assembled especially for Sunday’s Mad Hatters day at the Galway Races. Umbrellas were the order of the day as the almost constant fall of rain forced a lot of people indoors and under the stands, where their mostly-cardboard creations were safer.Children had been preparing their masterpieces for weeks in anticipation of the final day of the summer festival, and the themes ran from the usual racing to the more unusual Michael Jackson tributes.Food, farm life and even...JUST over 140,000 people passed through the turnstiles over the seven days of the Galway Races summer festival – a significant drop of more than a quarter on figures for the last two years.The admission points were not the only areas of the city’s biggest annual tourism draw that saw a drop, however...