New Zealand’s Keely O’Grady takes Rose of Tralee 2024 crown: ‘It was like an out-of-body experience’
14 more Roses took to the stage in Kerry tonight, before the winner was announced
Keely O’Grady (21), a fourth-year Speech and Language Therapy student at Canterbury University, has become the third New Zealand Rose to take the title.
Speaking to the Irish Independent just after the show at the MTU Kerry Sports Academy, she said: “When I heard my name called, it felt unreal. It was like an out-of-body experience.”
The 2024 International Rose of Tralee Keely O’Grady selected on stage at the Kerry Sports Academy, MTU during the Rose of Tralee International Festival on Tuesday night. Photo: Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD
“The shock comes from the fact that I’m standing alongside these 31 beautiful, amazing, talented women, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
“That could have been any one of them, and the fact that the judges saw something in me while standing alongside those other 31 incredible women that really means a lot to me,” she added.
Mrs O’Grady said she didn’t expect…
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