barryqwalsh
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In 2014, Maria Walsh became the first openly gay Rose.
We think we have them pegged. Naive Daddy's girls who talk about milking cows while wearing GAA jerseys.
Their father is in the Garda band, they teach at St Brigids, and they love tea, cardigans and Tayto sandwiches. Their boyfriend Micheál Óg is in the audience, but "would you go away out of that, Dáithí, sure it hasn't even crossed our minds yet!"
Then there is the diaspora; ladies who once shook hands with a man who smelled of turf and as a consequence now consider themselves as Irish as soda bread.
Slag it off all you want, but the Rose of Tralee is a barometer of change - Independent.ie
