Rose of Tralee 2023

Just spotted Michael Healy Rea and the peak cap in the audience.

New York won. Jesus.

Of course she won, those picking the winner had their bets on, and the market knew it, so everyone followed, and had a payday from the bookies, it's the same every year

I think the two hosts worked well Kathryn Thomas and daithi are a good duo.

No, the New York girl was favourite this morning

That's an interesting thought..

Katherine Thomas's voice gets too high pitched, screechy. Same on OT.

Not necessarily. New York was favourite all day today until Clare Rose took to the stage. Then Clare stormed into the lead, obviously big money came in. Lot of punters burnt methinks.

As I said in an earlier post, an "International" Rose was going to have an advantage as the cute hoors in Kerry will want to encourage foreign participation... and last year was a local winner (Westmeath)

New York was 7/4 yesterday before the TV show started. Mayo next at 7/2 or so. Then Kerry 6/1, Sydney 8/1, Clare may have been around that price too, can't recall.

Before tonight's show, new York was 10/11 fav, mayo second fav.

It was her Mother she lives with her and she said people think they are Sisters she looks so young

Yeah, it really is strange that they don't try to put together a behind the scenes or build-up type programme as yes, they clearly have the camera's following them around. That 5 minute montage last night could obviously have been stretched to an hour (2 half hour segments) maybe just with voice over narration to keep the costs down. They certainly would get the viewers. I think in the past there was more background stuff televised on the likes of Nationwide etc.

If they wanted to go full on reality show type competition, there's apparently a fairly lengthy private interview section between just the Roses and the judges that is hinted at but never really fully discussed... which is where the winning Rose is actually decided upon. That might be quite interesting.

The only reason that they might not want to do that is that if the organisers pull back the curtains completely, they would lose control of the narrative and the judges decisions/motivations might be questioned. This year was all about empowerment of wimmin etc. and the competition aspect was played down.

Looking straight into the screen for a lot of it,easily could have been bullet point notes or an autocue but it seems he does this every year so fair play to him

No it is not, on the local paper it said sister and I know the mother who lost her son in Australia.