{"id":3371,"date":"2025-08-16T21:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T21:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/3371\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T21:22:10","slug":"in-pictures-rose-of-tralee-officially-opened-at-kerry-county-council-led-ceremony-at-island-of-geese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/3371\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Rose of Tralee officially opened at Kerry County Council led ceremony at Island of Geese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photos from the Rose of Tralee opening ceremony at the Island of Geese on Friday afternoon. Photos by Mark O'Sullivan. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KT Opening008.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)\">Photos from the Rose of Tralee opening ceremony at the Island of Geese on Friday afternoon. Photos by Mark O&#8217;Sullivan. <\/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)\">The 2025 Rose of Tralee International Festival was officially launched on Friday afternoon in soaring temperatures at the Island of Geese, where the 32 International Roses received a warm welcome to Tralee.<\/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)\">Large crowds gathered for the Kerry County Council-hosted ceremony, which began around 3pm. MC Alan Cantwell introduced the Roses before Noel Heaslip performed for the reigning Rose of Tralee, Keely O\u2019Grady.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos from the Rose of Tralee opening ceremony at the Island of Geese on Friday afternoon. Photos by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,887,19,17,888],"class_list":{"0":"post-3371","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-fergus-dennehy","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-rose-of-tralee"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371","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=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}