Day five of Galway Races 2025: Last minute arrival sees Westmeath woman take top style prize in Ballybrit
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Extra.ie
a day ago
- Extra.ie
'Cheeky' moment at Galway Races leaves viewers in hysterics
The Galway Races got a glimpse of a 'full moon' as its Summer Festival concluded over the August Bank Holiday weekend. One Racing TV viewer was on the ball as he started recording a group of lads horsing around behind the camera at the perfect time. After a bit of messing, one of the seemingly middle-aged men turned around and pulled down his trousers to reveal his bare backside to the camera. @ronniesquibb Started videoing these boys laughing at the state of them then looked what happened 😂😂. #horseracing #racingtv #horsesoftiktok #horserace #horseraces ♬ original sound – Ronnie Squibb The viewer recording the moment burst out laughing and remarked: 'What a legend. I can't believe I got that on video.' He captioned the post on TikTok: 'Started videoing these boys laughing at the state of them then looked what happened .' Only a day after posting the clip, the user already received over 40,000 likes on TikTok. Naturally, the comments have been flooded with the classic puns associated with a 'mooning'. One user wrote: 'There's a crack in ur tv mate', while another added: 'There's a full moon coming.' Other comments included: 'think u have a 'split' screen TV mate', 'Cracking day out', 'he's only having the crack' and 'what's the crack at the racing'. The clip has been shared over 20,000 times in just one day. The Galway Races Summer Festival concluded over the weekend. Pic: INPHO/Laszlo Geczo It wasn't the first occasion of the festival that left people in stitches after RTE's Teresa Mannion shared a hilarious video of a high heel getting caught in a storm drain. Teresa gave an impromptu interview to the woman, who was trying to pull the heel out of the drain, with her tagging the designers Manolo Blahnik — whose heels fetch prices of around €600. 'A trapped designer heel, recycled hat, former Ladies Day winner turned judge,' Teresa wrote. 'It's all happening at the Galway Races. Winners to be announced later this afternoon.' Incredibly, this isn't the first time that such designer shoes were discarded in the streets of Galway, as back in 2023 Teresa spoke to security at the festival; who said that they found a pair of Manolo Blahnik stilettos in the bin. 'Security staff at Ballybrit were bemused to find a pair of designer shoes worth 660 euros dumped in a bin!' Teresa tweeted. 'Even a pair of #ManoloBlahniks couldn't sustain a lady at the #GalwayRaces.' People were left in stitches at the dumping of the shoes – which, according to racecourse security, were left after a woman gave them to her partner, who then put them in the bin as she continued barefoot. 'The boom is back (for a select few only) hope the ladies kept them tbh [to be honest],' one person tweeted, while another joked 'Carrie Bradshaw would never' – a nod to the fact that a blue version of the suede stiletto were made famous by Sarah Jessica Parker's character in Sex and the City.'
Irish Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Irish Daily Mirror
We smashed a 22/1 winner yesterday and have a circa 6/1 double-bubble for today
Shark Hanlon has always been a good bet to register a winner at Galway - his winning streak stretches back 17 hasn't gone conspicuously close to one at Ballybrit this week which puts the spotlight on his three runners this afternoon, Half A Chance, Pahlavi and Hitak. Half A Chance (1.50pm) runs on the back of a run earlier in the week here and where, hampered four out, he finished seventh to Jessica Harrington's Jerrari. READ MORE: Galway Races - Premier football's favourite song can be a love of our own - 22/1 winner yesterday Derek & The Pacemakers The six-year old had amateur Paddy Hanlon that day but there has been a notable switch to Gavin Brouder for a lower-rated field. Half A Chance is also a Carly Simon song, released as a single in between her two most famous tracks You're So Vain (1972) and Nobody Does It Better (1977).But it is directly connected to both as her ever-so cool record label Elektra - which was owned by Warner Brothers - were fretting about the You So Vain smash-hit superstar losing their considerable muscle and citing Simon's nerves about performing on 'live' TV, they convinced Saturday Night Live to take a pre-taped performance of the 1976 single, something unheard of at the were for bargaining however and Simon agreed to pre-tape Your So Vain (purported about her then lover and Hollywood mega-star Warren Beatty) as well. It was a huge win for Elektra as Simon as with Half A Chance picking up and making the US Top 40, she was offered the James Bond track Nobody Does It Better from The Spy Who Loved Me - such a strong tune it would be the first theme song from the franchise since Dr No that wasn't the title. There is the lyric: "You said we'd stick through thick and thin, through up and down, through lose and win, but you gotta give half a chance: Which, granted, isn't quite as good as 'Vain': "You're so vain (you're so vain), I bet you think this song is about you, Don't you, don't you..." Or for that matter 'Nobody' with: "Nobody does it better, Makes me feel sad for all the rest, Nobody Does it half as good as you do, Baby, baby, you're the best." Here at Galway we are looking for back-to-back wins - following yesterday's 22/1` strike on Blue Moon Boy - and note Half A Chance hardening from 14/1 to 6/1 this morning. Get the latest sports headlines straight to your inbox by signing up for free email alerts.
Irish Daily Mirror
3 days ago
- Irish Daily Mirror
'The people of Galway take Race Week off - to spend more time in worse traffic'
If you've been trying to contact Galway this week, sorry about that. Galway's off. Maybe you're in the midlands and you've spotted someone wearing an oversized jumper, with bongo drums, and four thin dogs on bailing twine. You may have thought "that person looks lost - I'll give Galway a call, they're probably looking for that person in Eyre Square"... So you phone Galway and no response. Not even a message minder saying "thanks for calling Shop Street, we'll call back if we get some arts grants". And then you realise. Ah... It's the Galway Races. The lost hippy with the bongo drum will have to find their own way back to their spiritual home. For a city that spends most of the time in traffic, the people of Galway all take Race Week off - mostly to spend even more time in worse traffic. Those who have jobs take Race Week off. Those who don't have jobs take Race Week off too. Credit to the good men and women of the Emergency Services who are always working. Them, and people who sell coffee or chips from trailers. So you might see work happening if someone scalds themselves with an americano after bumping into someone with a snackbox. Other than that, forget about it. There's a small minority who wear their special clothes and watch wonderful tiny people do amazing things on horses. Everyone else is having pints or - in these challenging times - slightly less expensive cans. Neachtains pub will be so crowded there might even be people in there who don't qualify for an arts grant. Many people celebrate their time off by avoiding the city and instead visiting the towns and villages they actually live in. Oranmore, for example, will be packed as there will be a huge influx of people from Oranmore. There might be tourists. You'll know them because they'll be dressed for the weather - not for a Netflix drama based in industrial England. You can tell it's Race Week because there's fewer helicopters in the sky. Locals might quip: "It must be the races because it's not like Apocalypse Now". So if you need to contact Galway, wait two weeks. Or maybe give Clare, Sligo or Mayo a shout instead.
