Hopes high for securing another Volvo stop

THE team which secured the Volvo Ocean Race stopover for Galway City next May are “very hopeful” of securing another stopover in the 2011-12 race, the Sentinel can reveal.Let’s Do It Galway successfully applied to host a stopover in the city next May, which is expected to generate a cash boost for Galway of around €45 million.The group has now confirmed that it is considering applying for Galway to act as a stopover for the next Ocean Race and is “very hopeful” of a favourable outcome.“There are many ports in the UK and Ireland who would all be vying for it, and it’s not always a 'given’ that we would get to host it again, just because we would have hosted it once. Some ports only get it once, others would get it again and again,” Fiona Bolger, Communications Director with Let’s Do It Galway told the Sentinel. Expressions of interest for potential stopovers for the 2011-12 race have to be submitted within the next six weeks.“You have until the end of November to submit a statement of interest, and we would be very hopeful of doing it again,” she said. Ms Bolger said that the Ocean Race — which set off from Alicante in Spain last week — had already put Galway on the world stage.“If you look at Galway lined ...