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Traditional beauty pageant battles to keep pace in modern Ireland

Ireland’s Rose of Tralee beauty pageant returned after a two-year absence due to Covid

TRALEE (IRELAND) – As the Rose of Tralee beauty pageant concluded this week, the contestants in colourful ball gowns and silk sashes swayed as they sang the 19th-century ballad that inspired the competition.

“She was lovely and fair as the rose of the summer,” they sang as this year’s winner was paraded through the town in County Kerry, southwest Ireland, which gave the contest its name.

When all 33 contestants departed the stage, fireworks burst overhead and ticker tape ribbon fell from the sky.

The beauty pageant returned to Tralee and Ireland’s living rooms after a two-year absence due to Covid restrictions to fanfare from its…

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