Is there a slideshow?



pic c/o Independent Woman

Independent Woman has a great slideshow of the roses during their peregrinations around Kerry. Pictured above are 2012 Sydney Rose Sophia Fitzgerald and Waterford Rose Lorna Ferncombe.

View the 32 photo - slide at Independent Woman

Don't Mess with Sophia



Sophia Fitzgerald c/o The Leader



Meet Sophia Fitzgerald whi is the 2012 Sydney Rose. Why should one not mess with her? Well, for a start she currently is a martial arts brown belt and secondly, she is in training to be a black belt within the year.

The Leader has more on Sophia.

Sydney Rose goes racing

Louise Leninhan - 3rd from left

2010 Sydney Rose, Louise Lenihan attended the Rose of Tralee Race Day at Randwick Racecourse.

The Irish Echo has a great slideshow of the day.

Limerick well represented

Elaine Rael (above) is the 2010 Dubai Rose - she is from Castletroy in Limerick. The Limerick leader informs us that there are other 'Limerick Roses' -  Louise Lenihan, the Sydney Rose and Brid Richardson, the Limerick Rose.

More of this at the Limerick Leader site.

Louise is coming to party!

This is Louise Lenihan, the 2010 Sydney Rose. Louise has a bit if an idea what is ahead of her in Tralee, if we are to believe the Penrith Press - ' "From what I gather we’ll be doing 10 days of touring while we’re there," Ms Lenihan said. "Then the final day of the event will be televised nationally. It’s one big party" '.

Looking forward to it already.

Go to the Penrith Press for more.

Louise from Sydney

We have no other information about the Sydney Rose than a series of pictures, all available at the Irish Echo. In the picture above Louise Leninhan, the 2010 Sydney Rose has the 2009 Sydney Rose, Romy Farrelly on her left and Charmaine Kenny the 2009 International Rose on her right.

So, until we get more details, enjoy the pictures at the Irish Echo.

London ? Kildare? Charmaine is International

Here again we have Charmaine Kenny, her family and her boyfriend at the Final night.

The Kildare Nationalist goes big on Chamaine, all because of her Kildare Connections. A quote from the article, "Tributes have been paid to the 26-year-old since her win. Athy Chamber was effusive in its praise, and noted: “Just in case anybody needed reassurance that Athy is a town full of wonderful talented people who bestride the world stage, this year the Rose of Tralee competition had three Roses born in Athy; the Kildare Rose, Erika Kelly, the Syndey Rose, Romy Farrelly and the London Rose, Charmaine Kenny.”

In addition to this, the Kildare Nationalist reported "Labour Cllr Mark Wall also congratulated Charmaine, saying her victory “has certainly put Athy on the international map”.
Read all about it here.

Sydney and Athlone Unite

Romy Farrelly, 2009 Sydney Rose, meets Sheils Buckley, Deputy Mayor of Athlone

The Westmeath Independent has the full story. What story? Very simple really, Romy's mum Bernadette (nee Dunning), comes from the area. Read a lot more about the Sydny Rose at their site.

Athy has Two Roses

Here is a nice twist. In an interesting item in the Kildare Nationalist it is reported that two of this years Roses are from one town - Athy. Charmaine Kenny is the London Rose and Romy Farrelly is the Sydney Rose. But how did they find out about this? Read here.