High Hopes

John O'Shea with Talitha Orlandi c/o Sunderland Echo

It's great to have friends in high places. It's great to have high friends too! Talitha Orlandi is the 2012 Sunderland Rose and she is pictured above with John O'Shea - he of Sunderland, Man. United Republic of Ireland soccer fame

All of this is courtesy of the Sunderland Echo. Talitha is a Mullingar native but lives and studies in Sunderland at present. “I have loved living in Sunderland. The people here are lovely and are just like the Irish. It feels homely to me", she is reported in the paper.

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