The Rose of Tralee is Dead

DMT

From http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0115/rose.html
No funds to discharge Rose of Tralee debts

A spokesman for the Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism, John O'Donoghue, said today no funds are available from Fáilte Ireland to assist festivals in discharging their debts.

He added that funds were only available from the tourism body to assist festivals in their marketing campaigns.

Since December 2001, almost €550,000 in Government funding has been allocated to the Rose of Tralee festival.

The Chief Executive of the festival has said that unless €250,000 can be raised by the weekend, she will have to inform its directors that attempts to save the company have failed. The festival directors will then have to decide whether or not to put the company into liquidation.

Rescue package bid

Over the past three months the festival's chief executive, Siobhan Hanley, has been trying to put a rescue package together to save the company from liquidation.

Ms Hanley told RTÉ News she has secured verbal agreements from a majority of the company's creditors, who are owed €900,000, to settle for payments amounting to a third of their debts.

But, she said, the success of the rescue package was dependent on a commitment from five organisations to make a contribution of €50,000 each to pay off the debts.

Ms Hanley said the Mayor of Tralee met earlier this week with the five bodies, Tralee Town Council, Shannon Development, Tralee & Kerry Vintners, Tralee Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Holiday Tralee, but no financial commitments were made at the meeting.

Ms Hanley said there are others from outside Tralee interested in investing in the festival, but they would only do so if the company was debt free and if organisations in the town had also come on board

From Irish Independant
Rose spurns riches to care for Calcutta children

JOANNA O'Keeffe, the Cork entry in the Rose of Tralee has suspended her work as a model - to go and work as a volunteer teacher with street children in Calcutta.

Joanna has decided to turn down lucrative modelling and personal appearance contracts to focus on helping charity, the Hope Foundation. Joanna will work with former street children teaching them English.

Hope Foundation official, Maureen Forest, said the charity was thrilled with Joanna's offer to help and impressed by her decision to put charity work ahead of lucrative modelling contracts.

"When Joanna approached us to discuss the possibility of teaching in Calcutta, we were delighted to have her," Maureen said.

Lump

About fúcking time.


John

mike65

Ah I would'nt get my hopes up just yet, some silly bugger will find the money at the last possible moment.

Maybe a local lotto winner, RTE and Gaybo can stump up, or perhaps a consortium of overweight "Martha and Bob McGraths from Boston Ma" will come together so thier daughter Aine can have a platform to dazzle us from!

Mike.

AdMMM

I doubt it will go down like this! All the locals will raise funds and it will be going for another year at least!

DMT

They better add a swim suit competition if they bring it back...

mike65

Originally posted by DMT
They better add a swim suit competition if they bring it back...

I'd go further and make it pay-per-view!

WARNING CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK!

http://www.trembelog.com/Content/CWA/NudeWorld/1/images/MNW129B_jpg.jpg

Mike

Lump

Hmmmm, you feel confident about posting that (It's nice like, but will you get burned by monty)



John

Agent Smith

may i be the first to piss on it's burning ashes?

oeNeo

Wow. Dey r sum hot ladys LOL! :D

DMT

Civilian_Target

Originally posted by mike65
I'd go further and make it pay-per-view!

http://www.trembelog.com/Content/CWA/NudeWorld/1/images/MNW129B_jpg.jpg

Mike.

Nice linkage! Could have labelled it non-worksafe though...

Commissar

Wow...That's a lot of silicone.:p

Typedef

First a Dub wins it... and then the culchies won't pay off their debts in protest.

"Ye can't have a Jackeen winit... sure... tis against god".

/etc.

scojones

That will be a big blow to the people of Kerry, financially speaking. It's no loss to me. If i wanted to see a bunch of american-irish-wannabies trying to play the harp, and rant about being 3.14....% irish i'd go to Boston, not turn on RTE 1.

Red Alert

"The rose of tralee is dead" ---> Thank God!

mike65

Terrible news chaps....

The Rose of Tralee had been saved! :mad:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0116/rose.html

It seems a bunch of local business men sudenly realised,
have been prompted by the coverage yesterday, that Tralee pubs would be empty next August so have pledged a stack of cash....

Mike.

BuffyBot

Originally posted by mike65
Terrible news chaps....

The Rose of Tralee had been saved! :mad:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0116/rose.html

It seems a bunch of local business men sudenly realised,
have been prompted by the coverage yesterday, that Tralee pubs would be empty next August so have pledged a stack of cash....

Mike.

Say it ain't so

Mossy Monk

couldnt give a **** tbh. if it keeps the grannies happy for 2 nights of the year etc. etc. it is a load of arse though, that i do agree with

Kold

Wow, how'd she die?

DMT

Originally posted by Kold
Wow, how'd she die?

She fell down a well...

Stephen

Ah **** it. I thought we were rid of it.