There’s always a Twitter wag who can cut to the quick of what a lot of us are thinking: Imagine a competition where men line up in their finery to be interviewed by Gráinne Seoige and to dance a jig while their dads weep in the audience and say how much they love their Irish granny. No? Too much to imagine?

Stunning Tipperary Rose, Aoife Kelly, remains the bookies 5/2 favourite ahead of tonight’s Rose of Tralee Festival.