Miss Ireland

Miss Ireland 2008, Sinéad Noonan

Miss Ireland is a national beauty pageant held in Ireland each year, to celebrate the country's most beautiful women. Winners of the contest represent Ireland at the Miss World pageant. Other winners, including Roberta Brown and Siobhan McClaffey have also been delegates at rival international pageant Miss Universe. The pageant produced a future Miss World, Rosanna Davison in 2003. Other notable winners include newspaper columnist Amanda Brunker and artist Nuala Holloway.

Potential contestants should be at least five feet seven inches (1.7 m) in height, between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four, and unmarried without children. In addition, they must be citizens of Ireland, either born or naturalised. All contestants must come from "a background which is not likely to bring into disrepute the pageant or the organisers".

The current titleholder is Holly Carpenter from Dublin; she was also named Miss University Ireland prior to winning Miss Ireland.^[1]

Miss Ireland 2007, Blathnaid McKenna

Miss Ireland titleholders

References

• Pageant News
• Miss Ireland Website
• Jakki Moore
• Nuala Holloway
• Article on Miss Ireland