Shock & Anger Over "Far-Right Reaction" to the Picking of the Dublin Rose - 12/05/2026

We were joined on The Agenda this morning by journalist Terri Prone, who wrote a piece in The Irish Examiner yesterday titled, “It’s frightening to see how clever the far-right reaction to the picking of the Dublin Rose is”.Dublin Rose Suad Mooge this week said that she is "shocked but not surprised" at comments on social media by people saying she "is not Irish".Suad won the Dublin Rose title last week and will represent the capital at the Rose of Tralee in Co Kerry in August.Sligo born Suad said that as a person of colour "it's part of the experience of growing up" in Ireland. She said that the negative comments about her online haven't really phased her much as she has heard it before. However, she said she was surprised at the "volume of hate". In her piece this week, Terri called out the far-right reaction to Suad being chosen to be the Dublin Rose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.