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Bathshack comes to Ballybrit

The Association of Irish Racecourses is delighted to share with you some more wonderful sponsorship news from one of our valued member racecourses. Galway Racecourse has announced a sponsorship deal with Bathshack and here’s all you need to know.

The planning is well underway for the welcomed return of Ireland’s largest horse racing festival, the Galway Races, which takes place from Monday 25th to Sunday 31st July. This is one action packed week and this week the racecourse announced a new sponsor to their race week programme, ‘Bathshack’, Britain and Ireland’s top bathroom retailer.

The Company has signed a two-year to sponsor the fourth race on Saturday 30th July. This is a €17,000 maiden of for three-year-olds and up. Commenting on the new sponsorship, Chief Executive of Galway Racecourse, Michael Moloney said, “We’re delighted to welcome Bathshack onboard for the Summer Festival. They have a thriving online business, with six showrooms here in Ireland and are expanding further. The Galway Races presents great opportunities for sponsors to engage with a large audience and we look forward to working with the team at Bathshack on making their sponsoring a great success”.

Expansion 

Lorraine Kelly, marketing and ecommerce manager at Bathshack said, ‘With further plans for expansion within Ireland this year, we are delighted to be able to increase our brand awareness through such a great sponsorship. We are delighted to sponsor The Galway Races for 2022/23.

Bathshack are one of Britian and Ireland’s largest bathroom and tile suppliers. Their extensive catalogue features a range of products including baths, showers, bathroom suites, tiles, flooring, heating, lighting and much more! Bathshack is a family run business with 6 stores across the island of Ireland.

Choosing what will go into your bathroom can be a daunting task. Whether an entire make-over, or quick revamp, Bathshack’s showroom team will be there to assist you in finding the perfect products for your space. They also offer a beautiful bespoke hand-crafted range of Josef Martin furniture.

This provides the customer with unique individual bathroom pieces. If you can dream up a vanity unit for your bathroom, then Josef Martin can manufacture it. It is an amazing journey allowing the customer to take their ideas from paper and watch them come to life. This can involve anything from selecting different sizes, colours, counter tops to adding different style basins and unit handles.

Along with this, they have extended their range of stunning decorative lighting which can be found on display in all of their showrooms. What are you waiting for? You can visit Bathshack in store, (Belfast -Boucher Road & Dargan Crescent, Lisburn, or Ballymena) or online today at bathshack.com, where you can check them out for yourself.

Summer highlight

Widely regarded as the highlight of the summer season in Ireland, Galway looks forward to welcoming its racegoers back to Ballybrit for one amazing week that offers its guests great horse racing, entertainment, fashion, reunions with friends and family and an electric fun atmosphere that continues to draw people from all over the world.

To book your ticket to this year’s Galway Races check out www.galwayraces.com

Another positive news story for Irish racing is the Boylesports Irish Grand Weekend at Fairyhouse. Best of luck to all the team there and safe passage to all the runners and riders over the Easter weekend from all at the Association of Irish Racecourses.

By Leo Powell

Irish Field

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