Eighteen Roses will take to the stage tonight for the first televised selection night of the 2024 Rose of Tralee.
A capacity crowd is expected at the Munster Technological University for the live show.
32 Roses will take to the stage tonight and tomorrow nights vying to be crowned the 63rd Rose of Tralee.
The Rose of Tralee International Festival began in 1959, with 62 winning Roses announced over the years – the Rose selection was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Dublin and New York lead the way in most crowns, with five each.
Tonight, the first group of Roses will take to the stage for the televised shows at the Kerry Sports Academy in the MTU.
The final rose of selection night one, which gets underway at 8PM.
Taking to the stage tonight are (in alphabetical order):
1. Cork – Shauna O’Sullivan
2. Dubai – Ciara O’Sullivan
3. Galway – Deirdre Jennings
4. Kerry – Emer Dineen
5. Kilkenny - Lisa O’Rourke
6. Leitrim – Shauna Murtagh
7. Louth – Justine McGuirk
8. Melbourne – Dervla Dolan
9. Monaghan – Anne-Marie McArdle
10. New Zealand – Keely O’Grady
11. Newfoundland & Labrador – Tammy Snook
12. North Carolina – Kathryn Wright
13. Ohio – Aoife Zuercher
14. Perth – Maria Collins
15. San Francisco – Maggie Baglin
16. Sydney – Ashling Heneghan
17. Waterford – Abby Walsh
18. Wicklow – Kerry Byrne
Rose of Tralee Co-host Daithi Ó Sé says there's great excitement.
