WATCH: Home and Away star Dan Ewing reacts to the Rose of Tralee

"Is he speaking a different language?"

Out of all the things us Irish folk have to endure, like pronouncing the name, Siobhan or explaining that we are in fact a separate country to the United Kingdom, describing the phenomenon that is the Rose of Tralee to our friends abroad has to be the most difficult, writes Anna O'Donoghue.