Twenty-year-old Aisling Reihill from Donagh, the 2007 Fermanagh Rose, is off to Limerick this weekend to compete in the Irish Regional Final of the Rose of Tralee.

The Regional Final is held every year before the Rose of Tralee International Festival to determine which Irish Roses represent their counties at the International Final in August. The event was established in 2005 in recognition of the fact that now every county in Ireland selects a Rose. This year the Irish Regional Final event will take place at the South Court Hotel, from Friday to Sunday. Hosted by Today FM's Ray D'Arcy, the Irish Regional Final Selection will see six Roses chosen from those representing counties throughout Ireland, and the Fódhla Rose who represents Ireland's Irish speaking Gaeltacht areas.

The winners will join Roses from Dublin, Cork, and Kerry to go through to the International Festival. This makes a total of nine Roses from counties in Ireland represented at the International Final. The youngest in a family of four, Aisling is a daughter of Una and and Cathal, and a sister to Sinead, Ciaran and Orla. A second-year physiotherapy student at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Aisling is currently completing a six week placement in the Belfast City Hospital.