{"id":454548,"date":"2026-05-18T08:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454548\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:02:09","slug":"rose-of-tralee-defends-e19k-generated-in-fees-for-childrens-events-its-fair-and-considered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454548\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose of Tralee defends \u20ac19k generated in fees for children\u2019s events \u2013 \u2018It\u2019s fair and considered\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rose Buds and Buddies enjoying the 2025 Rose of Tralee Festival.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b559ae37-2f7b-48ad-afb4-0ddc8b3b61b8.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)\">Rose Buds and Buddies enjoying the 2025 Rose of Tralee Festival.<\/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)\">Festival Director Suzan O\u2019Gara has defended the application fees for children joining the Rose \u2018Buds and Buddies\u2019 competition, following criticism from a Kerry mother who called it \u2018too steep\u2019.<\/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)\">The competition sees 64 children selected every year \u2013 32 boys and 32 girls \u2013 who are twinned with the 32 Rose of Tralee contestants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rose Buds and Buddies enjoying the 2025 Rose of Tralee Festival. Festival Director Suzan O\u2019Gara has defended the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,66371,16585],"class_list":["post-454548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-rose-of-tralee","tag-stephen-fernane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454548","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=454548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}