The Rose of Tralee: Preposterous, Immense Fun, Simultaneously Self-aware and Slightly Drunk, Left-Wing and Conservative. It's an Irish Battle Royale

Rumour has it that next year’s festival will be sponsored by Roman Abramovich

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Each year, in a lean-to outside Tralee in the Irish county of Kerry, a woman is crowned with a tiara for some reason. Th…