Salthill Air Show to be to grounded

The lack of a main sponsor for the Salthill Air Show had become a major problem for its organisers, who have decided to pull the plug on the annual event after 15 years due to difficulties in raising funds to keep the show in the air.But even if the organising committee were to get a major fundraising windfall at this stage, it still wouldn’t be possible to hold next year’s Air Show, as it’s too late in the day to bid for aircrafts to come to the event, one of the organisers said.It was announced this week that the Air Show’s organising committee has decided to cancel the free one-day show — which is one of the biggest single events on Galway’s tourism calendar, attracting between 80,000 to 100,000 people to the area when it’s staged in June.Brian McGrath, one of the show’s organisers, told the Galway City Tribune it had become very difficult, particularly in the last three years, to hold the event.He said without……