Rose of Tralee

I say the capital because it's the only thing we have compared to Killarney.

And the Rose of Tralee.

It's a good, yeah, the Rose of Tralee.

And the Rose of Tralee.

And they tried to rob that office as well.

Oh, did they? It couldn't become Rose of

His sister was

the Rose of Tralee.

Was she, yeah? I don't know if she actually won it.

She may have won it, but she definitely was Wicklow's Rose of Tralee.

Really? Yeah.

Yeah, she was Queen of Bray as well.

So my theory about this is that it's like the equivalent of the Mayo curse.

Instead of a priest cursing the team for celebrating during a funeral, it's the 1987 team's fault for standing to the Rose of Tralee instead of our national anthem at the Rugby World Cup.

I'm like...

Well, that's the original scene here.

I grew up in Finglas and she used to sing in the Annunciation in Finglas West.

And she sang and our daughter, Casey Harris, who was in the Rose of Tralee last year, And they sang Joyful Joyful from Sister Act and everyone was clapping.

The priest was clapping.

They loved it.

A lady who has had a totally different experience, uh, to menopause is Maria Walsh because she has just celebrated the arrival of her first child.

The Fine Gael MEP, and indeed former Rose of Tralee, decided at the age of thirty-seven to research fertility options to sole parenthood.

She doesn't have a partner.

She's not sure if she will have a partner, but she very much wanted to have a child.

I think after about a year that I knew I wanted to stay, but then I guess feeling like established in terms of career probably took three, four years.

So I moved in 2014 and in 2015, Irish listeners will know this, what I'm talking about, but it was probably the year that changed everything for me in New York because I became the New York Rose of Tralee.

Right.

Amazing.

great experience the whole few days.

What's it all about?

yeah yeah it's like so when I did it we had there was preliminaries in May in Portlaoise and then so there was like over 70 roses from across the world in Ireland would go there and then they cut it down to 32 to go to Tralee in August and for anyone listening that isn't familiar with the Rose of Tralee it's an Irish festival that happens every August in County Kerry it was once a beauty pageant it's since over the years kind of developed and grown into more of a celebration of Irish women from across the world.

So I got to represent New York.

It's a book about myself at the moment.

Um, one woman thought it was, uh, The Rose of Tralee they were playing, and has now nur- is now nursing that grievance, and that whenever Mayo play next again, instead of bridesmaid signs down in Kerry, there will be signs in Mayo saying, "You tried to pull a fast one." Peter Heslin revealed that the, the, um, the, the guard of honor w- or not the guard of honor they said for me, the, uh-

Guard escort

... guard escort-

So, okay.

So, um, the, uh...

But the next time Kerry come up here, it'll be like you tried to nobble our celebration by, by playing The Rose of Tralee, even though it was Moonlight in Mayo, but the facts don't really matter.

But it settled then.

Excellent.

The Rose of Tralee and all that kind of-

Oh, wonderful

... you ever, ever one of those escorts or-