Rose of Tralee ‘a super celebration of women’

But what has changed in the last five-and-a-half decades of the world-renowned festival? Not much, according to Alice, it’s still Kerry’s most famous spectacle and continues to draw thousands of people, year after year.
With a twinkle in her eye, 75-year-old Alice remembers how, even in its first iteration, the competition attracted a huge amount of attention.