We are half way through our annual Lovely Girls competition in Kerry, and as usual it's been its normal mix of hide-behind-the-couch cringe and did-that-really-just-happen awe. Last night had all the ingredients of your typical Rose of Tralee, if you had been playing the drinking game alongside it, our sympathy, you must have a bad head today.

We met eighteen of the thirty-two Roses last night and sure wasn't each one as lovely as the next! (Apologies, we are morphing into Daithi now after three straight hours of watching him on the box.)

The event went off without a hitch, and while there were no major unforgettable moments - like proposals or hip-hop dancing Roses you still try to embody on the dance floor - there were of course some little gems that we just couldn't pass over.
 

Firstly, the mother kicking the dog (almost)

This appeared to happen in the background of the Sidney Rose's VT, and caused quite the stir. Relax though animal lovers, she doesn't actually hit the dog, it's more that she appears to be doing some sort of mammy-dance in the garden whilst playing football, actually we really don't know what's happening.

The obligatory 'skirt removal' happened.

Yep, that's still a thing. The Dublin Rose was the lady in question and proceeded to do an impressive enough River Dance impression but, everyone really just wished she was this Dublin Rose...

THAT proposal couple

We met last year's 'eleven no's' proposal couple who informed Daithi they would have a TV show shortly called The Proposal about what happened, so we have that to look forward to.

The lovely legs

Turns out one of the Rose's mothers had won a Lovely Legs contest back in the day, so of course Daithi had the woman lift her skirt to show off her pins. Come on now Daithi, that's really offensive, ALL the mothers have lovely legs.

Saint Daithi

The Galway Rose drew our attention to a Saint she happened upon that looked particularly like our Daithi, and you know, she's not half wrong.

He'll be dining out on that for months now.

Meet Saint John Bosco...

The headband girl

We're sure there is a fancier name for this then a headband, but you know what we mean. This lady was the wild card of the whole event, the final Rose of the night, she was complete messer, as Daithi referred to her. The quirky Rose mocked her Southern routes, slagged off her escort and generally just seemed tapped.

Let's keep her.

An icy finish.

And of course the ice bucket challenge, this is the latest trend taking over the internet where folk have buckets of ice thrown over them and then must nominate three others to do the same. It's designed to raise money and awareness for the neurodegenerative illness ALS.

Daithi's mother-in-law was the one who put forward his name and fair play to him, he stepped up to the challenge, nominating past hosts of the festival - Ray Darcy, Ryan Tubridy and Marty Whelan - to do the same.

Let's end every Rose of Tralee like this.