On this week when we would traditionally be celebrating the Rose of Tralee festival here in Ireland, I interview Helena Hughes a former Rose, and also a former student of mine. I was really surprised when Helena told me she was doing it. I say that as Helena is an outspoken, feisty young feminist – not your stereotypical Rose!  

In our chats we compare the event with tv reality show, Love Island and RuPaul’s Drag Race?!; We explore the benefits of a quarter life assessment’; We discuss “Millennial Burnout”; and finally Helena speaks honestly about overcoming her parent’s divorce at a young age, and now embracing her modern, non-nuclear family.