{"id":18219,"date":"2025-08-23T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T11:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/18219\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T11:20:09","slug":"meath-man-who-escorted-this-years-winning-rose-of-tralee-hails-the-festivals-role-in-promoting-irish-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/18219\/","title":{"rendered":"Meath man who escorted this year\u2019s winning Rose of Tralee hails the festival\u2019s role in promoting Irish tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">From watching the festival as a child in rural Meath to escorting the 2025 Rose of Tralee winner, Tommy Meade describes his experience as &#8216;a bit of a dream come true&#8217;\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Meath escort Tommy Meade jiving on stage with Laois Rose Katelyn Cummins. Photo: Domnick Walsh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/66f221ca-dda3-492c-9558-b1a6a254e7f6.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Meath escort Tommy Meade jiving on stage with Laois Rose Katelyn Cummins. Photo: Domnick Walsh<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For Meath man Tommy Meade, taking part in this year\u2019s Rose of Tralee was \u201ca bit of a dream come true\u201d, as he got stuck in during boot camp and made friends for life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">While it was not necessarily his lifelong wish to be an escort, Tommy always wanted to be involved in the festival in some way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From watching the festival as a child in rural Meath to escorting the 2025 Rose of Tralee winner,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,11117,888],"class_list":{"0":"post-18219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-louise-hickey","13":"tag-rose-of-tralee"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}