Asked by The Northern Standard this week to sum up her experience as Monaghan’s representative in the recent Rose of Tralee Festival, Scotstown’s Michelle Caulfield plucked the words “life-changing, surreal, unforgettable” from the lexicon.
The teacher listed as her highlights the reunion with all her Rose “sisters” in Dublin at the beginning of the tour that preceded the Tralee event itself; the opportunity to spend time with family and friends at the Tralee ‘ pub twinning’, and the Saturday night parade in the host town, which she described as “one of …