{"id":587904,"date":"2026-08-09T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587904\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T11:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T11:42:08","slug":"kilkenny-ready-to-welcome-2026-rose-of-tralee-tour-as-finalists-gather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587904\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilkenny Ready To Welcome 2026 Rose of Tralee Tour As Finalists Gather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official 2026 Rose of Tralee Rose Tour kicks off today.<\/p>\n<p>The 32 international finalists gather together for the first time, including Kilkenny Rose and Threecastles native Rachel Walsh.<\/p>\n<p>The tour will bring the Roses on a scenic journey across the country, making a stop in Meath, Kilkenny, then onto Limerick and the main festival in Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>The televised selections begin on August 17th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official 2026 Rose of Tralee Rose Tour kicks off today. The 32 international finalists gather together for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,12969,278,248202,66371],"class_list":["post-587904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny","tag-music","tag-rachel-walsh","tag-rose-of-tralee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587904","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=587904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}