THE Mayor of Limerick, who launched a scathing attack on the Rose of Tralee festival committee earlier this week, yesterday warned the Tralee organisers they were undermining all future Limerick participation in the event.

JOSTLING and shuffling like excited schoolboys ahead of a debs night, 31 nervous Rose of Tralee escorts formed a guard-of-honour of sorts to welcome their Roses to the Fels Point Hotel — and many to Tralee for the first time.