Miss Ireland

Not to be confused with Miss Universe Ireland.

Miss Ireland 2008, Sinéad Noonan

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 2007, Blathnaid McKenna

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

1. ^ Miss University Holly Carpenter is Miss Ireland 2011

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