- Miss Ireland
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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 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 the Irish Republic, 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 titleholders
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 Delamere Miss Springtime 1968 (Delamere), Miss Europe 1969: Top Ten (Delamere) 1970 Mary Elizabeth McKinley 1971 June Glover 1972 Pauline Theresa Fitzsimons 1973 Yvonne Costelloe 1974 Julie Ann Farnham, Nuala Holloway Miss World:Top fifteen (Farnham), Miss Universe:Top ten (Farnham) 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 Thompson Miss World:Top ten, Photogenic Award 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 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 Talent References
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