The waiting game is over for 16 of this year’s Rose of Tralee contestants last night, who found out they had made it through to the live TV stage of the competition on Monday and Tuesday nights.

OVER €40,000 raised at a UNICEF Ireland charity lunch in Dublin yesterday will be used to fight the scourge of HIV/AIDS being passed on to the next generation in Africa.

A 22-year-old bank worker from Tallaght in Dublin has won this year's Rose of Tralee festival.

FOR the Rose of Tralee devotees, there was much interest in how the young whippersnapper Ryan Tubridy would fare.