{"id":657063,"date":"2026-08-26T08:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/657063\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:04:19","slug":"rose-of-tralee-executive-chair-says-hes-very-happy-with-mtu-arrangement-for-televised-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/657063\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose of Tralee executive chair says he\u2019s very happy with MTU arrangement for televised shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The executive chair of the Rose of Tralee International Festival says he\u2019s very happy with the arrangement to host the televised shows in the MTU.<\/p>\n<p>The two televised shows, in which 32 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/2026-rose-of-tralee-wants-to-be-a-role-model-for-young-people-with-alopecia-495564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roses<\/a> take to the stage, come live the Kerry Sports Academy at Munster Technological University in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Those shows were previously televised from the specially-constructed Dome in the Fels Point site, near the Rose Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry County Council is currently inviting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/expressions-of-interest-sought-for-use-of-two-sites-at-fels-point-489234\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expressions of interest<\/a> for two sites which are located on the Dan Spring Road in Tralee.<\/p>\n<p>These are zoned for tourism and related purposes, as well as for mixed use\/opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about a permanent home for the festival, executive chair Anthony O&#8217;Gara says their arrangement with the MTU is working very well:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anthony O\u2019Gara says he\u2019s delighted with the TV viewership for the <a href=\"https:\/\/roseoftralee.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rose of Tralee International Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He says the festival celebrates the Irish diaspora in a positive way.<\/p>\n<p>Mr O\u2019Gara says it\u2019s notable that the festival now has fewer critics:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The executive chair of the Rose of Tralee International Festival says he\u2019s very happy with the arrangement to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,37336],"class_list":["post-657063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rose"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117160776064930158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657063","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=657063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}