{"id":383081,"date":"2026-04-05T11:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383081\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:22:12","slug":"brianna-parkins-i-have-my-feelings-about-the-rose-of-tralee-but-id-be-heartbroken-if-it-were-to-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383081\/","title":{"rendered":"Brianna Parkins: \u2018I have my feelings about the Rose of Tralee, but I\u2019d be heartbroken if it were to disappear\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The journalist and former Sydney Rose on her working-class roots, Repeal the Eighth, and why her strong connection with Ireland and living \u2018in a state of perma-grievance\u2019 will add to her unmissable new weekly column\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;We were, by my standards, millionaires, because we had two used cars.&quot; Former Sydney Rose, TV reporter and new Irish Independent columnist on her working class roots\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/47d32fb2-07e9-4632-b559-a3505eb116a8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8220;We were, by my standards, millionaires, because we had two used cars.&#8221; Former Sydney Rose, TV reporter and new Irish Independent columnist on her working class roots<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cWinter has officially landed in Sydney,\u201d Brianna Parkins tells me. \u201cOur summer has finally ended, with a bang. I\u2019m overlooking the harbour now, and the waves! We don\u2019t really get autumn or spring. It lurches from one extreme season to another. You\u2019d miss the mild, soft days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">By which she means the mild, soft Irish days. Brianna moved back to Sydney, where she grew up \u2013 as part of an Irish emigrant community \u2013 in summer 2024, to start a job as a television reporter with ABC News. Last weekend, she announced another move: to Irish Independent, where she begins a new weekly column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The journalist and former Sydney Rose on her working-class roots, Repeal the Eighth, and why her strong connection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49550,93,61,60,6361,66371],"class_list":["post-383081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-emily-hourican","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine","tag-rose-of-tralee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}