Ireland at major beauty pageants

This is a list of Ireland's representatives and their placements at the Big Four international beauty pageants, considered the most important in the world. The country has won one of the four pageants:

The criteria for the Big Four inclusion is based on specific standards such as the pageants global prominence and prestige approved by worldwide media, the quality and quantity of crowned delegates recognized by international franchisees and pageant aficionados, the winner's post pageant activities; the pageants longevity, consistency, and history; the sincerity of the pageant's specific cause, platform, and advocacy; the overall pre-pageant activities, production quality and global telecast; the enormity of internet traffic; and the extent of popularity amongst pageant fans across the globe.[1][2][3]

Ireland's Big Four titleholders

Color Key
  •      Ended as Runner-up
  •      Ended as one of the Finalists or Semi-finalists
Year MISS UNIVERSE MISS WORLD MISS INTERNATIONAL MISS EARTH
2018 Grainne Gallanagh
TBA		 Aoife O'Sullivan x Sarah Carr
TBA
2017 Cailín Toíbín
Top 16		 Lauren McDonagh x x
2016 x Niamh Kennedy Katherine Gannon x
2015 Joanna Cooper Sacha Livingstone x Joelle Curoe
2014 Lisa Madden Jessica Hayes x x
2013 x Aoife Walsh x x
2012 Adrienne Murphy Rebecca Maguire x x
2011 Aoife Hannon Holly Carpenter x Rachelle Liggett
2010 Rozanna Purcell
Top 10		 Emma Waldron
Top 7		 x Alesha Gallen
2009 Diana Donnelly Laura Patterson x x
2008 Lynn Kelly Sinéad Noonan x x
2007 x Bláthnaid McKenna x x
2006 Melanie Boreham Sarah Morrissey x Melanie Boreham
2005 Mary Gormley Aoife Cogan x x
2004 Cathriona Duignam Natasha Gairbheith x x
2003 Lesley Flood Rosanna Davison
WINNER		 x x
2002 Lisa O'Sullivan Lynda Duffy x x
2001 Lesley Turner Catrina Supple x x
2000 Louise Doheny Yvonne Ellard x ↑ No Pageant Held
(established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines)
1999 Vivienne Doyle Emir Doyle x
1998 Andrea Roche
Top 10		 Vivienne Doyle x
1997 Fiona Mullally Andrea Roche x
1996 Joanne Black Niamh Redmond x
1995 Anna McCarthy Joanne Black x
1994 Pamela Flood Anna McCarthy Julie Stokes
1993 Sharon Ellis Pamela Flood Deborah Hannigan
1992 Jane Thompson Sharon Ellis Mary Moore
1991 Siobhan McClafferty Amanda Brunker Susan Brady
1990 Barbara Curran Siobhan McClafferty
1st Runner-up		 Veronika Moore
1989 Collette Jackson Barbara Curran
Top 10		 Louise Kelley
1988 Adrienne Rock Collette Jackson Karin O'Reilly
1987 Rosemary Thompson Adrienne Rock Barbara Curran
1986 Karen Shevlin Rosemary Thompson
Top 15		 Majella Byrne
1985 Olivia Tracey
Top 10		 Anne Gannon
Top 15		 Karen Shevlin
1984 Patricia Nolan Olivia Tracey
6th Runner-up		 Karen Curran
1983 Roberta Brown
2nd Runner-up		 Trish Nolan
Top 15		 Sandra Eglington
Top 15
1982 Geraldine McGrory Roberta Brown
6th Runner-up		 Martina Meredith
Top 15
1981 Valerie Roe Geraldine McGrory
Top 15		 Michelle Rocca
2nd Runner-up
1980 Maura McMenamim Michelle Rocca Mary Hadaman
1979 Lorraine O’Conner Mary Hegarty Lorraine O'Conner
1978 Lorraine Enriquez
Top 12		 Lorraine O'Connor Lorraine Enriquez
4th Runner-up
1977 Jakki Moore Loraine Enriquez Anne McDaid
1976 Elaine O’Hara Jakki Moore
Top 15		 x
1975 Julie Farnham
Top 12		 Elaine O'Hara Nuala Holloway
1974 Yvonne Costelloe Julie Farnham
Top 15		 Yvonne Costelloe
1973 Pauline Fitzsimons Yvonne Costelloe Pauline Fitzsimons
1972 Maree McGlinchey Cathy Talbot Katherine Talbot
Top 15
1971 Marie Hughes June Glover Brenda Guidon
1970 Rita Doherty Mary McKinley x
1969 Patricia Brine Charlotte Delamere Mary Kelly
Top 15
1968 Tiffany Scales June MacMahon
Top 15		 Frances Clarke
1967 Patricia Armstrong
Top 15		 Gemma McNabb Sonya Mullan
1966 Gladys Waller Helen McMahon ↑ No Pageant Held
1965 Anne Neill Gladys Waller
2nd Runner-up		 Elizabeth Black
1964 Maurine Lecky Mairead Cullen Joan Power
1963 Marlene McKeown
2nd Runner-up		 Joan Power Olive White
Top 15
1962 Josie Dwyer Muriel O'Hanlon Mona Burrows
Top 15
1961 Jean Russell Olive White
Top 15		 Irene Ruth Kane
1960 x Irene Kane
Top 10		 x
1959 x Ann Fitzpatrick ↑ No Pageant Held
(established in 1960 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1968 in Tokyo, Japan)
1958 x Susan Riddell
1957 x Nessa Welsh
1956 x Amy Kelly
1955 x Evelyn Foley
1954 x Connie Rodgers
1953 x Mary Murphy
1952 x Eithne Dunne


× Did not compete
↑ No pageant held

Name of Pageant Placements Best Result
Miss Universe 9 2nd Runner-up (1963, 1983)
Miss World 16 Winner (2003)
Miss International 8 2nd Runner-up (1981)
Miss Earth 0 None
Total 33 1 Winner

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  2. ↑ International Beauty Pageant Ranking
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-14. Retrieved 2014-10-14.
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