Dubai Rose of Tralee 2009 - Applications Deadline 22nd March

[ March 22, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] The Rose of Tralee International Festival celebrates modern young women in terms of their aspirations, ambitions, intellect, social responsibility and Irish heritage. Click here to read more about this event.

Are you the 15th Dubai Rose? Would you like to represent Dubai at the 50th Rose of Tralee International Festival? Click and download the application form [...]

Rose of Dubai 2008 Photos and Video

Check out fantastic photos taken by Magz Bray at the recent Dubai Irish Society Rose of Tralee Ball 2008 at The Westin. Emma Dwane, our Dubai Rose of Tralee 2008, read her own poem on the night.

What does the rose mean to you?
What does the rose mean to you?
Is it something red or a dream [...]

Emma crowned the Dubai Rose of Tralee

Congratulations to Emma Dwane, the Dubai Rose of Tralee 2008! 
Originally from Limerick, Emma came to Dubai in August 2007 after completing her BA in New Media and English at the University of Limerick.

She came to Dubai to teach but decided this was not for her and looked into a different field. She recently started a [...]

Rose of Tralee 2007

Tomorrow night at the Westin Hotel, the Dubai Rose of Tralee will be selected and will go forward to compete in the International Rose of Tralee Festival in August.
Last year’s winner in Tralee was Lisa Murtagh (27) from New York. Lisa, an attorney, was the fourth New York Rose to be selected Rose of Tralee.

It’s a rosy life for some

For the past six years Dubai’s Irish Society has been electing a beautiful, talented lady to send to the country town of Tralee, County Kerry to represent Dubai in the world- famous Rose of Tralee Festival.
This coming Friday one lucky lady out of eleven will be chosen to attend the event in what promises to [...]

Journey of a Rose

The ‘Rose of Dubai’ is an annual event organised by the Irish community in Dubai in which they select a girl to attend the ‘Rose of Tralee’ contest in Ireland. Aileen McCarthy, last year’s winner, goes down memory lane as she urges other young women to take part in the contest on May 23.
The “Rose [...]

Irish cream: Blooming roses

“It’s not a beauty contest at all, it is all about personality, a good all-rounder,” said Deirdre McCarthy, chief judge of Dubai Rose, an event organised for and by members of the Irish community in Dubai.

The annual event is part of a bigger festival known as the Rose of Tralee organised annually in Ireland involving [...]