Rose of Tralee: Long running Kerry festival has made a few changes

This year’s Rose of Tralee sees Kerry County Council stepping in to foot the bill for street festivities, as well as the end of the annual tradition of the Rose Ball, Ellie O’Byrne writes

The launch of ‘Féile Trá Lí’ last month. Picture: Domnick Walsh 

As the summer draws to a close, heralding the return to school and before it the annual tradition of the Rose of Tralee competition, punters may notice one of the Kingdom’s longest-running festivals has made a few changes.

When the Rose of Tralee returned after the covid-19 hiatus of 2020 and 2021, in 2022 it had moved its main televised event from the custom-built Dome into Kerry Sports Academy at Munster Technological University (MTU).