Down Rose criticises festival and ‘cheap reality TV show’

A post from the Facebook account of the Down Rose, Fainche McCormack, has criticised the Rose of Tralee as well as a documentary by RTÉ on the event.

“I, and my fellow rose sisters, did not sign up for a cheap reality television show in which our emotions would be manipulated for entertainment purposes, nor did we sign up to be treated like animals in the circus and held in a room against our will,” read the post.

The comments were posted to the official Facebook page of the Rose of Tralee yesterday from Ms McCormack’s account: “Cameras intrusively followed us all week and asked inappropriate probing questions.”