The 26-year-old has been escorting London Rose Ciara Fallon throughout the festival.<\/p>\n
Speaking to The Journal, Brady described his experience of the festival as \u201cwonderful\u201d and said he has made \u201cfriends for life\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d encourage any man to do it,\u201d he said, adding that the festival is a great opportunity to meet other people and make friends.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce you\u2019re out of school, out of college, and people are going in different directions; it\u2019s much harder to meet new people and this has been a great opportunity to meet a new group,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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\n \u201cThe most clich\u00e9d line ever, but I have friends for life here!” Brady said. Domnick Walsh \u00a9 Eye<\/p>\n
Domnick Walsh \u00a9 Eye\n<\/p>\n
Brady said the festival has been a \u201cgreat buzz\u201d, adding that he only got around three hours sleep after last night\u2019s event.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said it has been a \u201cgreat privilege\u201d to meet the contestants, who he described as \u201camazing role models\u201d for children.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe girls are great representation of Mn\u00e1 na h\u00c9ireann and the diaspora,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know people are quick to run the festival down as a beauty pageant; it\u2019s not that at all.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s amazing the different perspective you get when you\u2019re involved in it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brady currently works as an undertaker and is studying to qualify as a solicitor.<\/p>\n
The Escort of the Year explained that he got into undertaking after carrying out work experience with a local auctioneer who also worked as an undertaker.<\/p>\n
The Rose of Tralee continues tonight from 8pm on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE ROSE ESCORT of the Year is encouraging other men to take part in the Rose of Tralee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,42554,18,272769,13,14,272770,6,19,17,957,11,12,15,16,5,888,7,8,14233],"class_list":["post-644824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cavan","tag-eire","tag-escort-of-the-year","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-gavin-brady","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kerry","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-rose-of-tralee","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-tralee"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117120306887312321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644824","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=644824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}