Fionnán Sheahan

That's associated with a whole tour by the Roses.

There's events in Tralee Town across the week.

And then obviously you have this network of Rose associations across the world tied in with Irish embassies and Irish associations and so on.

So it does all that work in the background.

In this case...

We ended up down the courts, but now matters have been resolved.

So tell me about how this issue was resolved this week.

So talk to me then about the sums involved.

How much did the late Dick Engler earn?

pay for that 31 percent shareholding in the company so this is where you know we get into issues that are under dispute

These shares have now in effect been bought back.

How much?

So Shane, this legal dispute is now over and obviously relations had soured.

Go back to the beginning, though, because...

There was quite a level of romanticism, I suppose, in Dick Hengler's involvement in the Rose of Tralee in the first place.

Echoes of Irish-American influence, the field, the quiet man, and so on about it.

It looked to be a kind of an ideal setup originally.

So how did Dick Hengler, this US-based hotelier, come to be involved in the Rose of Tralee?

Yeah, there's that classic image that we see at every Rose of Tralee every year of daughter is on the stage and it pans back to proud parents in the audience.

In that case, it would have been Dorothy on stage.