Post Tagged with: "Rose of Tralee 2015"

THIS is pretty great. The people at British Movietone are spoiling us by just recently putting up new YouTube footage of Tralee from years gone by. This time they’ve uploaded footage from the 1974 Rose of Tralee Festival where we hear about “the greatest free show on earth” and are […]

MARIA Walsh expects to literally drop into Tralee Town Park on Sunday, August 16 if she becomes the first Rose of Tralee to perform a parachute jump in the height of the Festival. Landing in picturesque Tralee Town Park, the tandem jump, which is subject to licence, will form part […]

THE Rose of Tralee International Festival team have been busy testing members of the public on their knowledge of the famous festival. This time, they’ve uploaded another video to YouTube, where they’ve asked the people of the town  if they know the words of the famous ‘Rose of Tralee’ song. While a struggle […]

SO how many can you name? The Rose of Tralee International Festival team were out and about on the streets of Tralee asking the public if they can name all 12 presenters of the Rose selection show over the years. They were able to get seven, as you can see in the […]

ONE wristband is all that’s needed to see Nathan Carter, Hometown, Hudson Taylor, Riptide Movement, Sharon Shannon, Damien Dempsey, the Kilfenora Céilí Band and others live on Denny Street during the Rose of Tralee International Festival. And now X Factor favourites ‘Only The Young’ have been added to the bill […]

IT’S set to be the fashion event of the year in Kerry with hundreds expected at The Kerryman Rose of Tralee Fashion Show in the Festival Dome on Sunday, August 16. The main attraction this year will be a salute to Irish designers, Irish fashion and Irish craft to celebrate Irish […]

  THE most glamorous night in Tralee’s social calendar is the Rose of Tralee International Rose Ball and tickets are now on sale for the event which takes place on Friday, August 14. Preceded by a champagne reception, the award-winning Brook Catering will once again serve up a feast fit […]

IT was an exciting, yet poignant, day for Dick and Eibhlín Henggeler on Thursday, as they officially became the owners of the Fels Point Hotel. A large group of family and friends joined hotel staff and members of the Rose of Tralee International Festival, to celebrate the signing of the contracts transferring […]

WELL the Regional Rose of Tralee contest takes place over this weekend up in Portlaoise and for one hopeful, the experience got off to an interesting start. The London Rose, Aisling Hillary, whose dad hails from Kerry, shared a flight to Dublin with former X Factor judge Louis Walsh and […]

THE death has occurred of the broadcaster Derek Davis. Mr Davis, who was 67, was well-known on RTE is his many guises as newsreader and presenter on the national broadcaster and also presented the Rose of Tralee back in 1995 and 1996. Mr Davis was called upon at short notice to host […]

A NEW walkway, under construction in the Town Park, will be named in memory of the late Dorothy (Dott) Henggeler,  whose parents recently bought the Fels Point Hotel for the Rose of Tralee Festival. At Monday’s meeting of the Tralee Municipal District, the Mayor of Tralee, Cllr Jim Finucane thanked Dick […]

  THE Rose of Tralee Festival will be extended to a week long Festival from 2016 onwards with 70 Rose contestants taking part and an extra night’s TV coverage. More Roses, more Rose Escorts, more Rose Buds, more entertainment, more family fun and more visitors can only mean that Tralee will […]

  DICK and Eileen Henggeler, the parents of the late Dorothy Henggeler, the 2011 Washington DC Rose who sadly passed away last year, have succeeded in their bid to purchase Fels Point Hotel in Tralee. The Executive Chairman of the Rose of Tralee International Festival, Anthony O’Gara, will become Managing […]

  MANY of the contestants for this year’s Kerry Rose contest met up in the Meadowlands Hotel yesterday. Over 20 ladies from all over the county were briefed by organisers about the event which takes place on May 9 at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel. The current Kerry Rose, Mary Hickey, […]

THE Rose of Tralee, Maria Walsh, is the most stylish newcomer in the fashion sector in Ireland after winning a top prize at the VIP Style Awards. Winning the award in her category last night in The Marker Hotel, coincided with the Rose of Tralee International Festival being a finalist in […]

NATHAN Carter, Hometown, Stereokicks, Hudson Taylor, Gavin James, Riptide Movement, Sharon Shannon and the Kilfenora Céilí Band are just a few of the acts that will all perform live at this year’s Rose of Tralee International Street Festival. A Full Access Street Ticket (F.A.S.T.) to see all eight acts will go […]