Galway Races - Red Lips & Hot Tips

God be with the days of the Celtic Tiger when the Galway Race Festival was the richest and most glamorous event in Ireland’s summer sporting calendar. Where the golden circle used to press the flesh and toast each other's success in an endless flow of free champagne in the hospitality tents, at someone else’s expense, ours! While the ordinary mortals, having spent hours in traffic queues as long as the M50 had to then join the scrum for an overpriced warm drink in a plastic glass, just to be part of the great occasion that is the Galway Races. Not to mention risking the fake tan (rain equals paint stripper) or silly hat (gale force winds) all par for the course in an Irish summer and I have never known ‘the going’ to be good enough for Louboutin heels yet...

Red Lips and Hot Tips at the Galway Races!

Now, don’t get me wrong, 500,000 plus visitors every year would surely agree it’s THE PLACE TO BE, but listen up for some ‘hot‘ tips. How to double your money? Apart from folding it and putting it straight back in your wallet? For starters? What everybody in Galway knows there is a lot more Sex (or whatever it is you are after) to be had in the City, than on the Racetrack, so leave that to the aficionados....

The savvy fashionista will party till dawn, then sleep till noon, spend the afternoon in hair and make up before shimmying on up to any of the top hotels cocktails lounges, fresh as the proverbial daisy, just as the lucky winners trickle in from the helipad….now girls, that’s what I call studying the form....

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