Search now on for the 2023 Rose of Tralee

e search for the 2023 International Rose of Tralee and Rose Escort of the Year has o cially begun. With Rose Selections taking place across 32 centres nationally and worldwide, 2022 Rose of Tralee Rachel Du y, RTÉ Rose of Tralee presenter Daithí Ó Sé and Rose Escort of the Year Shane McHugh have o cially launched the search for the 2023 International Rose of Tralee. e 2022 Kerry Rose, Éadaein O’Connell, from Glenderry, Co Kerry, was also on hand to welcome Rachel Du y back to the Kingdom and launch the search for this year’s Roses.

Applications are now open at www.roseoftralee.ie.

e 2023 festival will take place from August 18 – 22. Ireland’s agship family festival, the Rose of Tralee International Festival continues to grow in popularity with more than e 2023 Rose of Tralee International Festival will take place from August 18th – 22nd. If you think you’d like to take part and become a Rose or Rose Escort, simply visit www. roseoftralee.ie for more information on how to start your own Rose journey. length of time children with severe di culties were being made to wait for assessments.

100,000 enjoying all that was on o er across the ve-day event. In the coming months, Rose of Tralee regional selections will take place in towns and cities across Ireland, and all over the world. Every Rose that is selected to represent her county, city or country will enjoy a nationwide Rose Tour, showcasing attractions and communities right across Ireland; before arriving in Tralee for ve funlled days of parades, gala functions, community events, entertainment, the televised Rose Selection nights and much more.

Mr Sherlock disclosed that 85,967 children across the country “were waiting for some service or other” as of December last year.

At the launch of the report on the Assessment of Needs for Children, Social Democrats TD Holly Cairns said the situation for children’s disability services had become “desperate”. e committee was told that accessing needs assessments and early interventions were the di erence between children living at home, receiving residential care or “parents being unable to cope or forced to hand over their child to Tusla”.

Ms Cairns said she feared that the report would be “left to gather dust on the shelf” when in fact it needed urgent action.

Shorter college courses and higher wages for therapists were among the committee’s recommendations to reduce long waiting lists for children’s disability care.

In the last quarter of 2020, the national average wait for disability needs assessments was 19 months.

Children can spend many