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Rose of Tralee 2018, Kirsten Mate Maher.
NEXT year is a very special one for the Rose of Tralee International Festival as it celebrates its 60th anniversary.
It’s already been announced that there will be no regional finals and centres will put forward a Rose every two years (apart from Kerry, Cork and Dublin) resulting in just 32 Roses coming to Tralee next year for the festival.
Now, in another change, it’s been decided that the Festival will move back a few days. It will start on Friday, August 23 and the 2019 Rose of Tralee will be announced on Tuesday, August 27.
For the past number of years the Festival has started slightly later than mid-August (this year it began on August 17), but next year will bring it closer to what it used to be years ago, with the winner announced closer to the end of the month.
