Blooming marvellous: Tralee just can’t get enough of the Roses

“Sure hasn’t the whole town gone mad? There was a bus that pulled up there earlier and all the Roses got out and people went crazy for them. They love them, the Roses. They’re being treated like absolute royalty.”

She may only have been making light conversation while trying to refine my untameable tresses in time for last night’s much-anticipated Rose Ball, but my hairdresser, Monica, from Seán Taaffe’s, hit the nail on the head — we just can’t get enough of those lovely ladies.

Here we are at the #RoseOfTralee ball pic.twitter.com/w89W100b5I

— Rose of Tralee (@RoseofTralee_) August 14, 2015