{"id":641900,"date":"2026-08-17T14:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/641900\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T14:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:28:20","slug":"the-rose-of-tralee-festival-begins-its-two-day-televised-contest-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/641900\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rose of Tralee festival begins its two-day televised contest tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE TELEVISED PORTION of this year\u2019s Tralee International Festival will begin in Tralee, Co Kerry this evening and wrap up on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The annual festival began on Friday in the county town with the welcome of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/rose-of-tralee-2026-7127455-Aug2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 32 selected Roses<\/a> that will compete in the two days of televised events.<\/p>\n<p>A myriad of local offerings, like parades, live performances, and family events played out over the weekend in Tralee.<\/p>\n<p>This year marks the 67th year of the festival, having begun in 1959.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s judging panel consists of RT\u00c9 broadcaster Nuala Carey, fashion designer Don O\u2019Neill, Aisling Murphy of sponsor Murphy Homes and 1974 Rose of Tralee Maggie Flaherty.<\/p>\n<p>The festival\u2019s director of operations Steve Cronly and long-time host D\u00e1ith\u00ed \u00d3 S\u00e9 spoke to The Journal last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/rose-of-tralee-2026-2-7129883-Aug2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">about the mechanics and the perils of judging<\/a> the large volume of Roses.<\/p>\n<p>The winning girl needs to be \u201ccapable, confident and intelligent\u201d and a strong global ambassador for the festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 20-year-old Laois rose Katelyn Cummins took the title.<\/p>\n<p>The year before New Zealand rose, Keely O\u2019Grady brought home the crown at the age of 21.<\/p>\n<p>The Rose of Tralee airs on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player, Monday 17 August and Tuesday 18 August from 8pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE TELEVISED PORTION of this year\u2019s Tralee International Festival will begin in Tralee, Co Kerry this evening and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[1180,18,117,27934,6319,19,17,957,888,1181,14233],"class_list":["post-641900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-daithi-o-se","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-festival","tag-festivals","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kerry","tag-rose-of-tralee","tag-rte","tag-tralee"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641900","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=641900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}