Irish Examiner view: Is cancelled festival a fading rose?

Limerick Rose Sinead Flanagan, a 27-year-old junior doctor, was the 2019 winner.

At this stage of the pandemic, and as growing anger over crowds socialising on city streets confirms, it would have been more than surprising if this year’s Rose of Tralee Festival was to go ahead.

Indeed, it might have been more newsworthy had the organisers announced that it would be business, and novelty acts, as usual in the dome in Tralee.