A career in broadcasting wasn’t even close to my radar until TG4 asked me to read the weather.

It was a Tuesday evening family dinner chat. Then someone mentioned the Rose of Tralee ‘beauty pageant’, which was on TV that night. It’s not traditionally quite as exciting as The Late Late Toy Show, but it is one of those occasions in the Irish calendar when parents meekly accept that children can stay up late to watch it.

Limerick Rose Sinéad Flanagan claimed it was the Treaty County's year after success in hurling, Love Island and now the Rose of Tralee.

Rose of Tralee host Dáithí Ó Sé has put his best foot forward in the Dome by donning a pair of kinky boots on stage.

It's that time of year again.

Entrants to this year’s Rose of Tralee have been subjected to “malicious online threats” due to the event’s association with dog racing, according to the Irish Greyhound Board which has pulled its sponsorship of the festival.

Dáithí Ó Sé in conversation with Richard Fitzpatrick.

Dáithí Ó Sé tells Irene Feighan about the shape he's in

The song holds a special place in Shauna’s heart as her father used to sing it to her when she was little.

The Rose of Tralee jamboree is a bit like the Eurovision Song Contest — derided by many as an outmoded, tiresome, irrelevant and laughable spectacle but it remains an entertaining annual TV extravaganza that few viewers would miss.

We’ve grown up with thick skin from years of being subjected to Kerryman jokes and to be honest, no one loves a Kerry dig more than we do.

Even Daithí O Sé has chimed in.

Bosco is still enthralling children to this day, and Ireland’s favourite red-head is now putting his talents to raising money for the LauraLynn children’s hospice, writes Liz O’Brien

It has long been an aspiration of the Rose of Tralee International Festival but having a permanent dome could be in reach with work commencing in the next two years.

Offaly Rose Jennifer Byrne has been named the winner of the 59th International Rose of Tralee.

It was all going smoothly until the Western Canada Rose took the stage.

San Francisco Rose talks about festival’s role in the healing process.

The rain stopped just in time for Tralee’s Rose Parade on Saturday, but last night the focus in The Dome was on fashion, before the spotlight falls firmly back on the first 18 finalists later this evening.

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has rejected five complaints it received following last year’s Rose of Tralee, but upheld in part a complaint against a Dublin radio station over a phone-in show on abortion and fatal foetal abnormalities.

“The young women involved are exceptional people, they are independent obviously, and it would be a bit silly to expect that they wouldn’t have opinions, controversial or otherwise, on different things,”

It was a case of third time lucky for the newly crowned Rose of Tralee Maggie McEldowney, and she wasn’t going to let anything derail her moment in the sun.

Why you should never throw the bouquet towards a crowd of Roses.