{"id":597811,"date":"2026-08-19T06:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597811\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T06:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:32:15","slug":"rose-escort-of-year-is-aspiring-solicitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597811\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose escort of year is aspiring solicitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gavinmain.jpg\" alt=\"Rose escort of year is aspiring solicitor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            Gavin Brady<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Rose of Tralee escort of the year is Gavin Brady, an aspiring solicitor from the Cavan-Monaghan border.<\/p>\n<p>Brady, 26, has been escorting London Rose Ciara Fallon for the duration of the Co Kerry festival.<\/p>\n<p>He has enjoyed the week tremendously, which he quipped \u201chas been like a wedding a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t believe it\u2019s almost over,\u201d he said today (18 August).<\/p>\n<p>Aside from excelling as a Rose escort, Brady has worked in both the public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Sparked<\/p>\n<p>His interest in law was sparked in transition year at St Patrick\u2019s College in Cavan town, when he did stints with legal practitioners in the locality such as Ann McGarry in Clones and McGuigan Solicitors in Belturbet.<\/p>\n<p>He was impressed with the calibre of legal talent in the region, and went on to study economics, politics, and law at DCU.<\/p>\n<p>While he admits the FE1s have been a formidable challenge, Brady has six of them already completed.<\/p>\n<p>He hopes to start a training contract once the final two exams are under his belt.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Rose of Tralee will be chosen live on RT\u00c9 One tonight, with the broadcast starting at 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>                                <a style=\"color:black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lawsociety.ie\/gazette\/author-articles\/?author=Gazette Desk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                    Gazette Desk<br \/>\n                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gazette.ie is the daily legal news site of the Law Society of Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gavin Brady This year\u2019s Rose of Tralee escort of the year is Gavin Brady, an aspiring solicitor from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-597811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597811","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=597811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}