Daughter of heroin addicts steals the show at Rose of Tralee

They said it was outdated as corsets, but anyone watching last night’s Rose of Tralee festival must have gasped at the question; “Tell me about the time you found out you were pregnant”.

And so it was that platinum blonde Carlow Rose Shauna Ray Lacey, a bookie with a baby, whose parents had both been heroin addicts, laid to rest any ghost of a notion that Ireland’s longest running beauty pageant is somehow behind the times.