Ó Sé spices up festival with scandalous revelation

THE Rose of Tralee doesn’t do scandalous sex secrets, so it was no wonder Daithí Ó Sé’s tongue-in-cheek response to questions about his blossoming romance with former Rose Rita Talty led to a sudden pandemic of journalistic panic.

Speaking to reporters during an early morning press conference yesterday, the Kerryman was met with a barrage of queries about his private life.

True to his happy-go-lucky image, when asked if there was any more news on his engagement to 2008 New Jersey Rose Rita — a relationship revealed exactly a year ago — the gaelgóir side-stepped the usual knee-jerk “no comment” celebrity response by joking: “Well, I’m gay.”