The end of the summer is nigh and that means only one thing – The Rose of Tralee is back in town.
Édaein O'Connell, last year's Kerry Rose, on why she'll always defend our national institution's importance to her hometown.The viewership figures show that from Donegal to Roscommon and right through to Cork, there is an Irish mammy lighting a candle in a church, praying that their county’s Rose does the business.
Each year you tell yourself you will not watch it, but at 8pm on a late August Monday you find yourself sitting in front of the television with a packet of Kimberly biscuits and a cup of Barry’s tea. Then without warning, you are clapping along to a slip jig and thinking to yourself, “isn’t Dáithí great?”
Us Irish are preconditioned to possess grievances about most things. In the case of The Rose of Tralee, there are three sides. The first adore and idolize it unconditionally. The second is indifferent and could take it or leave it behind. The third despise it and will get into a debate about its outdatedness and how it is debilitating the fight for women’s rights.
I could tell you more about the Dome flying away. Or the mysterious and unsettling story of the Rose who was last seen on the back of a motorcycle . But I won’t. I will tell you about the families who cut pictures of the Roses out of newspapers and pick a Rose each out of a hat. It’s €2 a pick and the winner gets the entirety of the pot.
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