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2025 Rose of Tralee Katelyn Cummins bags high dancing score on Week 1 of Dancing with the Stars

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2025 Rose of Tralee Katelyn Cummins bags high dancing score on Week 1 of Dancing with the Stars As the dust settled on the Christmas and New Year festivities, viewers all around the country were treated to the return of the iconic dancing series Dancing with the Stars, returning for its 9th series on RTE One. With a star studded lineup of people such as Paudie Moloney from the Traitors, Eurovision winner Niamh Kavanagh, The Apprentice star Jordan Dargan, and singer Brian Kennedy, Rose of Tralee Katelyn Cummins was also amongst the lineup, and in good company for this series. For the Rose of Tralee viewers, we were all intrigued to see how incumbent Rose Katelyn Cummins would do on the first night with her new partner, and newcomer to the programme, professional dancer Leonardo Lini from Italy. This wouldn't be the first time Katelyn has danced on telly, as when she was onstage at the Rose of Tralee, she and one of the Rose Escorts entertained the audience with a jive onstage togeth...

My first blog post - Rose of Tralee International Festival Fans Club Blog

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  Rose of Tralee International Festival - Fans Club Blog  Hello.  My name is Liam Holton. Some of you might know me as the head admin of the Facebook fan group "Rose of Tralee International Festival - Fans Club", which to this date has over 2,000 members so far. Making a fan blog site was something new that I wanted to try for 2026, so here I am.  I feel for the first blog post, I wanted to make a post where all my group members, and any blog readers here would want to get to know me a little more personally. So, here goes.  I was born in Atlanta, Georgia USA in April 1997, to Irish parents. My mother is from Castlebar, County Mayo, and my father is from Longwood, County Meath. Nearly a year later, my parents decided to pack up their old life in the states and we returned to Ireland. After brief stays in Meath and Mayo, my parents eventually found their feet getting jobs in the south east and we moved to Mooncoin, County Kilkenny, where my two younger siblings, ...