Rose of Tralee 2022

The Westmeath native broke down in tears on Tuesday night when host Daithi O Se called out her name on the famous Dome stage. Speaking after the win, Rachel, ...

And I will just sit down with my family and discuss it and weigh up all of my options. Rachel is a brilliant girl, and the youngest in the whole family, and always full of surprises and she has really pulled it out of the bag this time. I think covid I reverted a bit into myself like a lot of people, so I just took this opportunity to push myself.” “Obviously as someone who grew up in a single parent home, especially without my mom, I always felt like I was lacking that strong female in my life and looked to other people for role models. And I look at her and I think to myself ‘how did I go through that at that age and come so far?’ I am on her coattails really, but she has been brilliant.” “And we are getting well paid now for sticking together. “I spent the last two weeks with all of those women and it is bittersweet in a sense. “Because those thoughts and those feelings have to go somewhere. A lot of time and effort went into me getting into my masters, and it has always been my dream as well. She explained: “I would have struggled a lot to talk about my mum growing up and I suppose I never had any friends I connect to in that sense of a parent passing away and I was nine when my mom passed away. And I'll be looking forward to seeing all of the girls again today.”