Róisín Ingle

How do you feel about the Rose of Tralee?

Well, I'm really glad that she's coming out so strongly about it as well.

Yeah.

I mean, you'd definitely be cheering her on in the rosary.

There was a time when I was doing it every year, so I kind of got a bit sick of it.

But then when I've been out of it for a while now, I kind of can get back on the bandwagon.

And the girls are lovely.

I mean, it is a lovely girls competition.

I know, this is it.

I was at the launch of an exhibition last night in the Little Museum, which I have to say has been voted the seventh most popular tourist attraction in Europe.

Delighted for them and for Trevor White, who founded the museum.

But they have an exhibition of the anti-apartheid movement

because you won't remember this, but you're way too young.

But in 1984, 11 young shop workers in Dunn stores refused to handle South African goods as a sort of protest against the apartheid going on in South Africa.

And it was an incredible thing.

It was Mary Manning who refused to handle the fruit.

And then she got suspended.

Several of her colleagues walked out in protest and it led to a three year strike.

And that kind of strike became the symbol of solidarity in the struggle against apartheid.

And actually, Michael D. Higgins last night launching the exhibition was remembering a prisoner at the time in South Africa who talked about the fact of the Dunn Storrs strikers being so inspirational to him and helping him when he was in.