In a Facebook post, Fainche McCormack alleged that “cameras intrusively followed us all week and asked inappropriate probing questions” with one girl being asked what colour underwear she was wearing right before she went on stage.

“I think it’s time to give women a say over their reproductive rights.”

It was an eventful evening in the Dome but it was the forthright views of the Sydney Rose and a protest by a man dressed as a priest that generated the most buzz during the opening night of the Rose of Tralee.

Social media is wild with speculation that indie pop legends the Stones Roses are about to make a big announcement.

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“Sure hasn’t the whole town gone mad? There was a bus that pulled up there earlier and all the Roses got out and people went crazy for them. They love them, the Roses. They’re being treated like absolute royalty.”

Kerry Rose Julett Culloty brushed tears from her cheeks yesterday as she told how she had been diagnosed with cancer just over a year ago.

Former Guns N' Roses rocker Slash has filed for divorce from his wife of 13 years.

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The first part of this year's Rose of Tralee selection festival gets underway in Co Kerry tonight.

After five days of touring some of the country’s most famous tourist landmarks, this year’s crop of Roses finally planted themselves in the home of the world renowned competition, Tralee.

She may not have won the Rose of Tralee crown but Melbourne entrant Christine McGrattan is, in her own words, going back to Australia with another title — the one she was really after.

The Rose of Tralee is often criticised by its detractors for failing to represent modern Ireland.

THE Rose of Tralee: in the modern world of televisualising, it’s a rarity. There are not many programmes that an entire household will actually sit down and watch together, on a TV, live, interrupted only by trips to the kettle and a bit of snarky tweeting.

Reunited rock act the Stone Roses are to headline the Isle Of Wight Festival next year.

The Killers closed V Festival with a greatest hits set last night.

Regular Rose of Tralee viewers are used to unusual sights, with banana songs, breakfast rolls, and a contestant who decapitated Sesame Street’s Bert of Bert and Ernie fame (seriously) all taking the spotlight in recent years.

Revellers basked in the sunshine at the V Festival today as the event revisited the glory days of “Madchester”.

First there was the Ali shuffle, then its John Joe Nevin Mullingar equivalent.

The sun shone as the Roses bloomed for the official launch of the 2012 Rose of Tralee festival yesterday.

Staying active is key to positive ageing, a former Rose of Tralee tells Rachel Borrill.

The Stone Roses singer Ian Brown hailed gold medal winning Team GB athletes Bradley Wiggins and Jessica Ennis as the "king and queen" of England at an intimate London concert last night.

The Rose of Tralee International Festival has dismissed suggestions it is sectarian after a Church of Ireland rector said his church has been overlooked to hold a service for the contestants during the annual event.

They had vowed never to reunite.

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Reni refused to do an encore at the Stone Roses' Amsterdam show because of "irritations" with sound.

Slash has almost finished writing his second solo album.

David Beckham was instrumental in the Stone Roses' reformation, it has been claimed.

THE Stone Roses proved their reunion was what the world was waiting — as they sold out three outdoor shows in little over an hour to set a new record.

ON the day that Manchester rockers — the Stone Roses re-formed and vowed to ‘take the world by storm’, Manchester City’s hopes of doing exactly that were transformed by a dramatic last-minute Sergio Aguero goal against Villarreal in the Champions League.

Seminal rock band The Stone Roses are expected to announce a comeback tour today.

One of the most eagerly anticipated reunions in rock music looks to be on the cards after rumours grew that The Stone Roses are getting back together.

THE first half of the annual obsession everyone in the country claims they don’t watch kicked off last night with a new host, new love and, arguably, a new unofficial name.

TRALEE town is a hive of activity this morning as the 32 women competing to become the area’s 2010 Rose begin their final preparations before the first of two live television shows tonight.

FOR all the hype, fanfare and hectic schedules surrounding the build-up to the Rose of Tralee, Daithí O Sé is a relieved man.

THE wider importance of the Rose of Tralee festival will be underlined later today when one lucky girl suffering from serious health concerns will be given the chance to see her dreams come true.

THE Ladbrokes.com Irish Derby only really springs to life on Saturday night as the third round invariably sees the classic move up a few gears.

T’WAS lovely and fair as the entrants in this year’s Rose of Tralee festival got their first taste of the spotlight which will shine upon them for another week when they gathered at the RTÉ studios in Dublin yesterday.

BUDDING escorts feeling the recession pinch will be relieved with news that even the cost of getting close to a Rose is plummeting.

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