{"id":9224,"date":"2025-08-19T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/9224\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:25:09","slug":"rose-of-tralee-review-dog-yoga-and-the-jumbo-breakfast-roll-did-what-ive-been-watching-really-happen-or-am-i-hallucinating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/9224\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose of Tralee review: Dog yoga and the Jumbo Breakfast Roll \u2013 did what I\u2019ve been watching really happen, or am I hallucinating?"},"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\">With D\u00e1ithi \u00d3 S\u00e9 and Kathryn Thomas at the helm, the Rose of Tralee festival\u2019s broadcast on RT\u00c9 was the usual mix of faux glamour and parish hall hokeyness\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Even after three years, Rose of Tralee co-hosts D\u00e1ith\u00ed \u00d3\u2019S\u00e9 and Kathryn Thomas still make for an awkward pair. Photo: Domnick Walsh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/84a1d362-71f1-477a-8be7-0a5fff845d34.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)\">Even after three years, Rose of Tralee co-hosts D\u00e1ith\u00ed \u00d3\u2019S\u00e9 and Kathryn Thomas still make for an awkward pair. 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)\">It\u2019s around the two-hour mark on night one of The Rose of Tralee (RT\u00c9 One, Monday, August 18) that the existential mini-crisis hits: did what I\u2019ve been watching really happen, or did I just imagine all of it?<\/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)\">Maybe I\u2019m dying and the whole thing is a hallucination. Or maybe I\u2019m already dead and this is a waiting room in hell. Jesus! That\u2019s it, I\u2019m dead. I\u2019m dead! No, wait. My bum is numb from all the sitting, but I can still wiggle my fingers. I\u2019m not dead. Phew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With D\u00e1ithi \u00d3 S\u00e9 and Kathryn Thomas at the helm, the Rose of Tralee festival\u2019s broadcast on RT\u00c9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,9162,888,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-9224","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-pat-stacey","13":"tag-rose-of-tralee","14":"tag-rte"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224","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=9224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}