The Rose of Tralee is cancelled - but Daithi O Se is still celebrating a decade at the Dome in an RTÉ special

Dáithí's Decade of Roses will be broadcast on RTÉ One Monday, August 24 at 9.30pm
The Rose of Tralee is cancelled - but Daithi O Se is still celebrating a decade at the Dome in an RTÉ special

Another Ó Sé favourite was last year when some 2FM presenters dared him to wear “kinky” boots on stage. He agreed, provided a sufficient sum was raised for charity. “It turned out that €50,000 was raised. So I did it.” 

It was at 4.30 in the morning in a hotel in Portland, Maine that Dáithí Ó Sé learned that his life was about to change. 

“I was in America filming with TG4 when the call came through that I had got the Rose of Tralee,” Ó Sé (44) recalls. “They said, ‘the gig is yours’. I couldn’t tell anyone because the rest of the crew was asleep. I was in my room jumping around the place.” 

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