Rose Maria Walsh  to nurture hope in India’s slums

It’s a world away from the glitz and glamour of the Dome in Tralee last August.

Rose of Tralee Maria Walsh picked her way through steaming mounds of filthy rubbish with at-risk Indian street kids to witness first-hand their daily struggle.

Maria was joined during the week at the open dump in Kolkata by former Bond girl Fiona Fullerton, who played KGB spy Pola Ivanova in the 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill, during a fact-finding mission with The Hope Foundation.