Housewife of the Year: A wistful celebration of a generation of Irish women who competed for £300 and a gas stove
Ciaran Cassidy’s fine documentary is filled with much sadness but also allows a fair degree of celebration
Rose of Tralee
Rose of Tralee festival beset by financial problems and legal actions
Plus: Brian Ormond’s shoe business missteps, Peadar Tóibín’s distaste for government funding of media, and effing drama in the Dáil
Michael D: The Movie – Higgins in the frame for the Mary Robinson big-screen treatment
Plus: Intercom man’s vote of confidence in Trump; Shane ‘Mullet’ Byrne’s victory in dispute with tenants; and Adam Clayton’s application for gardener gaff
‘It’s a beauty pageant that’s not about beauty’: New Zealand Rose celebrates victory and her Irish heritage
Keely O’Grady says Ireland and New Zealand have similar experiences of colonialism
New Zealand’s Keely O’Grady wins Rose of Tralee 2024: ‘I can’t really put it into words. I’m shaking so much’
Television: ‘What I’m most looking forward to is doing this for my country as an International Rose. We’ve only had two New Zealand Roses. It means a lot to me’
Patrick Freyne: I ooh as one Rose plays the spoons, aah as another risks ripping a hole in the space-time continuum
The second night of the Rose of Tralee International Festival is always when my cynicism retreats and I drink the red lemonade
Rose of Tralee 2024: ‘When nobody knew about the festival everyone wanted to come’
Tralee is ‘a place where love is in the air’ as the Kerry festival returns once again
The Rose of Tralee 2024 first night review: Card tricks, harp-playing and The Proclaimers parped out on the bagpipes
Television: It’s the 63rd year of the contest that Father Ted paradied as the Lovely Girls Competition, and there’s no sign of it running out of steam
Rose of Tralee: what time does it start, who will win and everything you need to know
Television: Contest has survived huge changes in society and remains popular – if controversial – part of national calendar
Rose of Tralee: ‘Roses at Mass. Roses going on the merries ... Time is frozen, you could say’
The 32 Roses participate in parades and other events for the 64th year of the festival before the competition begins
Rose of Tralee festival company sued by investor over alleged shareholder oppression
High Court case is second taken by Richard Henggeler, father of a former Rose of Tralee contestant
Father of former Rose of Tralee contestant initiates court proceedings against company that organises festival
Richard Henggeler is shareholder in Kerry Rose Festival Limited and it is understood proceedings are aimed at securing return of money allegedly loaned by him to company
Newly crowned Rose of Tralee rejects criticism that festival is outdated
New York’s Róisín Wiley says event is about celebrating women and Irish culture
Rose of Tralee 2023: Brianna Parkins on the real winner of this year’s competition
Television: Only the strongest can survive the contest’s format of doing a tell-us-about-yourself exercise in Spanx and a ball gown on live television
New York’s Róisín Wiley wins Rose of Tralee 2023: This is ‘something I’ve hoped for my whole life’
On the streets of the Co Kerry town, opinions on the festival swung from apathy to gentle endorsement
Brianna Parkins reviews Rose of Tralee’s first night: Firefighters, reattached fingers and – OMG – the first woman host
Television: Where else would you get this kind of entertainment except in a sports hall in Kerry?
‘The Rose of Tralee is a celebration of Irish women’: Search for the next Rose enters its final phase
Some 18 Roses took to the stage in Co Kerry for the first of two selection nights, as Kathryn Thomas joins Dáithí Ó Sé as the event’s first ever co-host
‘We’ve been booked out since February’: Tralee businesses gear up for the Rose festival
Thronged bars, céilí tents and busy streets dominate the highlight of the Kerry calendar
Justine McCarthy: It’s time for RTÉ to pull the plug on the Rose of Tralee
Making Thomas co-host is a desperate effort to extend the longevity of the antediluvian event
Roses seek to set themselves apart ahead of big day in Tralee
Thirty two hopefuls, including first ever married contestant, to compete for crown in five-day festival
Rose of Tralee in tweets: ‘We’ve reached peak Ireland people’
Dara O Briain: ‘Overdose of Irishness. Why don’t they show the Toy Show this week as well?’
What’s it like to be a former Rose of Tralee?
2010 winner Clare Kambamettu on what proved to be a ‘really hectic’ and crazy year
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