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Tipperary's Rose is Rose of Tralee

Kelly - Is an occupational therapist
Kelly - Is an occupational therapist

Twenty-three-year-old Aoife Kelly representing Co Tipperary has won the Rose of Tralee.

Watch Tipperary Rose Aoife Kelly's interview with Ray D'Arcy.

Watch the annoucement of the winner.

She is an occupational therapist at the National Rehabilitation Hospital of Ireland where she has experience working in the brain injury service, and now works in the spinal injury service.

Kelly has a passion for travel, spending working summers in America and has travelled to South Africa to do voluntary work with children suffering from HIV.

She played Gaelic football for her university in Aberdeen and also in San Francisco.

In the future she hopes to work as a senior occupational therapist and a reflexologist, and return to volunteer in the South African townships.

Visit our Rose of Tralee photocall gallery.

Visit RTÉ's Rose of Tralee website.

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