BAI rejects five complaints received following Rose of Tralee

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has rejected five complaints it received following last year’s Rose of Tralee, but upheld in part a complaint against a Dublin radio station over a phone-in show on abortion and fatal foetal abnormalities.

Most of the complaints against the Rose of Tralee concerned the contribution of Maigan Kennedy, the North Carolina Rose who, according to one complainant, “was allowed to ridicule, make fun of, and generally rubbish the Irish Roman Catholic Mass”.

Ms Kennedy had compared Mass to going to the gym, in that it involves repeated acts of sitting down and standing up, with the reward of a “biscuit” at the end.