New London Rose
New London Rose
May 08, 2016
Emma Murphy O'Connor has been selected as the 2016 London Rose. Emma, 23, is from London and is currently a full time student at the University of Law, Moorgate.
Emma, whose ex London Irish rugby player father is from London and mother from Galway, represented Cork based sponsor Seaview House Hotel.
On the 7th of May, the student was selected from 15 other hopefuls at the annual London Rose of Tralee selection ball at the Clayton Crown Hotel in Cricklewood. She wowed the judges with an energetic performance on a fiddle. She impressed the 240 strong audience with tales from her gap year, her ambitions to train as a solicitor and her fundraising.
Emma was presented her sash by outgoing 2015 London Rose Aisling Hillary after Chairman Noel O'Sullivan announced her as the winner. The judges had a difficult decision to make with 15 strong ladies interviewed and assessed from early that afternoon. For the first time this year, the finalists were treated to a replica Rose of Tralee mini-tour to give them a taste of the Tralee experience.
Emma Murphy O'Connor, London Rose said; "The last two weeks have been an absolute whirlwind. We have all loved every minute of the London Rose tour and have experienced so much from meeting all the wonderful elderly people at the London Irish Centre lunches to the bootcamp in the park. I have met some incredible, strong, intelligent and fun Irish women that I will always stay friends with and to be chosen to represent such a wonderful bunch of girls makes the whole experience even more of an honour. It has been a childhood dream of mine to go for it and I am very excited for the year ahead with very big boots to fill. I hope to do the London Irish community proud."
Emma will go on to represent London in Rose of Tralee festival in August. It is the first time that all Rose centres will go straight to Tralee to participate in the competition.
Images attached are to credited to Brendan Vaughan.
Editors Note:
Sinéad O'Sullivan
London Rose Centre PRO
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