Rose of Tralee: Lots of hoopla but Sydney Rose causes biggest stir

There was kickboxing, there was hula-hooping, and there was Nathan Carter, but it was the Sydney Rose’s comments on the Eighth Amendment that had everybody talking on the final day of the Rose of Tralee Festival.

Mary Kennedy, chairwoman of the judging panel, said it was not the place to make the comment, whereas 2014 Rose of Tralee Maria Walsh said the Sydney Rose “rocked it”.

On Monday night, Sydney Rose Brianna Parkins, 25, told Dáithí Ó Sé that she hoped there would be a referendum held on the Eighth Amendment, to give women a say in their own reproductive rights.