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SERIOUSLY ALL FOR THE CRAIC: Xander Brett gets taste of Listowel’s fierce passion for fun – and winners

I had no lead-up at Listowel. Stepping off the bus, which had slowly filled with racegoers as it trundled south, I was plunged immediately into a carnival that appeared to celebrate the very essence of Irish-ness without ever doing so deliberately.

A finish on Ladies Day with the town behind, Listowel sits in the northern half of Co Kerry

Two annual meetings
Listowel is a small town in the northern vales of Co Kerry. It’s no racing powerhouse and its small course holds but two annual meetings, a three-day Whit Weekend fixture and a seven-day Harvest Festival. When it’s on, however, I got...

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