WHERE TO MEET THE ROSES

AS ever this year’s festival will see twinning arrangements between many of Tralee’s pubs and the International Rose of Tralee centre’s that will be in town to support the 65 Irish and International Roses taking part in this year’s expanded festival.

Traditional most pubs were twinned with two Roses but with 65 contenders taking part this year several bars have been twinned with up to five Roses. The various Rose Centres and their supporters will base themselves in the bars throughout the festival and over the course of the week the Roses will visit the various pubs they and their supporters have been twinned with. For details of exactly when the Roses will be visiting the various pubs check out the event timetable in this supplement.

In all 21 pubs and hotels have signed up to take part in the twinning and the bars were allotted their respective in a draw last month. One pub will host five Roses, ten pubs will host four and another ten will host two. The following are the 2016 Rose of Tralee Official pub twinning arrangements.

Abbey Inn: Cork, London, Leitrim, Luxembourg An Cearnog: Dublin, Fermanagh, Perth, Scotland An Shebeen: Waterford, Western Canada An Teach Beag: Meath, Westmeath, New Zealand, Southern California Baily’s Corner: Wexford, Toronto Betty’s Bar: Louth, New Orleans Blasket Inn: Kildare, Cavan, Abu Dhabi, Derby Castle Bar: Sligo, San Francisco Charlies Bar at Kerins O’Rahillys: Down, Washington DC Greyhound Bar: Offaly, Laois, South Australia, South Carolina Kirby’s Brogue Inn: Limerick, Kilkenny ,Philadelphia, Arizona, Clare Linnanes: Tipperary, Ottawa Munster Bar: Wicklow, Monaghan, Texas, Yorkshire No 4 on The Square: Kerry, Tyrone, Newfoundland & Labrador, Ohio Paddy Macs: Carlow, Longford, Chicago, Florida Sean Ogs: Galway, Roscommon, Boston & New England, Dubai Sportsfield Bar: Mayo, Sydney Grand Hotel: Armagh, Donegal, Queensland, Newcastle/Gateshead Imperial Hotel: Derry, North Carolina Meadowlands Hotel: New York, Melbourne The Rose Hotel: Germany, Kentucky.