From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Miss Ireland
Miss Ireland
The current titleholder is Holly Carpenter from
Dublin; she was also named Miss University Ireland prior
to winning Miss Ireland.[1]
Miss Ireland 2008, Sinéad Noonan
Miss Ireland 2007, Blathnaid McKenna
Miss Ireland is a national beauty pageant held in the
Republic of Ireland each year, to celebrate the country’s
most beautiful women. Winners of the contest represent
Miss Ireland titleholders
Ireland at the Miss World pageant. Other winners, includ-
ing Roberta Brown and Siobhan McClaffey have also been References
delegates at rival international pageant Miss Universe. [1] Miss University Holly Carpenter is Miss Ireland
The pageant produced a future Miss World, Rosanna Dav- 2011
ison in 2003. Other notable winners include newspaper • Pageant News
columnist Amanda Brunker and artist Nuala Holloway. • Miss Ireland Website
Potential contestants should be at least five feet sev- • Jakki Moore
en inches (1.7 m) in height, between the ages of seven- • Nuala Holloway
teen and twenty-four, and unmarried without children. • Article on Miss Ireland
In addition, they must be citizens of the Irish Republic,
either born or naturalised. All contestants must come
from "a background which is not likely to bring into dis-
repute the pageant or the organisers".
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Miss Ireland
Year Miss Ireland International level
1947 Violet Nolan
1952 Eithne Dunne Miss World:Top fifteen
1953 Mary Murphy
1954 Connie Rodgers Miss World:Top fifteen
1955 Evelyn Foley
1956 Amy Kelly
1957 Nessa Welsh
1958 Susan Riddell
1959 Ann Fitzpatrick
1960 Irene Ruth Kane Miss World:Top ten, Miss International ’61:Top ten
1961 Olive Ursula White Miss World:Top fifteen, Miss International ’63:Top ten
1962 Muriel O’Hanlon
1963 Joan Power
1964 Mairead Cullen
1965 Gladys Anne Waller Miss World:Second runner-up
1966 Helen McMahon
1967 Gemma McNabb
1968 June MacMahon Miss World:Top fifteen
1969 Hilary Clarke, Charlotte De- Miss Springtime 1968 (Delamere), Miss Europe 1969: Top Ten (Delamere)
lamere
1970 Mary Elizabeth McKinley
1971 June Glover
1972 Pauline Theresa Fitzsimons
1973 Yvonne Costelloe
1974 Julie Ann Farnham, Nuala Miss World:Top fifteen (Farnham), Miss Universe:Top ten (Farnham)
Holloway
1975 Elaine Rosemary O’Hara
1976 Jakki Moore Miss World:Top fifteen, Photogenic Award
1977 Loraine Bernadette Enriquez Miss Universe ’78: 7th place, Miss International ’78: 4th Runner Up, "Miss Europe’78: 4th
Runner Up
1978 Lorraine Marion O’Conner
1979 Mary Hegarty
1980 Michelle Rocca Miss World:Photogenic Award , Miss International ’81:Second runner-up
1981 Geraldine Mary McGrory Miss World:Top fifteen
1982 Roberta Brown Miss World:Top ten, Miss Universe ’83:Second runner-up
1983 Patricia ’Trish’ Nolan Miss World:Top fifteen
1984 Olivia Tracey Miss World:Top ten, Miss Universe ’85:Top ten
1985 Anne Marie Gannon Miss World:Top ten
1986 Rosemary Elizabeth Thomp- Miss World:Top ten, Photogenic Award
son
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Miss Ireland
1987 Adrienne Rock
1988 Collette [Colette] Jackson Miss World:Top twenty
1989 Barbara Ann Curran Miss World:Top ten
1990 Siobhan McClafferty Miss World:First runner-up, Continental Queen of Beauty (Europe), Miss Universe ’91:
Photogenic Award
1991 Amanda Brunker
1992 Sharon Ellis
1993 Pamela Flood
1994 Anna Maria McCarthy
1995 Joanne Black
1996 Niamh Marie Redmond
1997 Andrea Roche Miss Universe ’98: Top ten
1998 Vivienne Doyle
1999 Emir-Maria Holohan Doyle
2000 Yvonne Ellard
2001 Catrina Supple
2002 Lynda Duffy
2003 Rosanna Davison (Winner),
Miss World 2003 (Winner) Continental Queen of Beauty (Europe), Miss World Beach
Beauty
2004 Natasha Nic Gairbheith
2005 Aoife Mary Cogan
2006 Sarah Morrissey Miss World:Top twenty-five (Beach Beauty)
2007 Bláthnaid McKenna
2008 Sinéad Noonan Miss World:Top ten (Miss World Talent)
2009 Laura Patterson
2010 Emma Waldron Miss World ’10: 3rd Runner Up, Continental Queen of Beauty (Europe), Miss World Ta-
lent
2011 Holly Carpenter
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Categories:
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• Beauty pageants in Ireland
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