While the notion of being a lady or a gentleman can seem more Downton Abbey than 2015 Ireland, Caroline Allen says that good manners are the true mark of character and are sadly rare

CALLING all unattached young men aged between 21 and 30 for what is dubbed “probably the best job in the world” for a week in August.

IT’S not often you hear the words Bear Grylls, James Bond and metro-sexual in the same sentence, but then again being an escort at the Rose of Tralee is no regular event.