When I took part in last year’s Rose of Tralee as the Kerry Rose, there were many things I didn’t expect. For example, I didn’t envision that on a sweltering August night I would be sitting in a long green dress in a hotel in Wexford with sweat cascading out of every pore in my body.
The festival that can look like an annual ‘Irish-off’ between women vying to be the best, good-grand-girleen is more important to the people who don’t live in Ireland at all
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