WATCH: New Laois Rose reads poem written with her Portlaoise students

Laois has a new Rose heading to the Rose of Tralee International Festival this summer!

Last Easter Sunday night, New York native Sinead Dowd was crowned a worthy winner.

The recently graduated Geography and English teacher moved from her US home to her auntie and uncle on a Cullohill farm aged 16, such was her love of Laois.

'It would be a great privilege' the new Laois Rose is excited for Tralee

WATCH: The new Laois Rose is announced

Watch Sinead read out her poem about that move, written with the help of her Scoil Chríost Rí students.