Started in 1961, the Miss Universe Ireland beauty pageant has grown and grown with hundreds of girls vying to win the competition to represent Ireland.
Some of the lucky girls aiming to take last years winner Diana Donnelly’s place and battle it out for the throne in the 2010 final are:
Miss Irish Sun, Karena Graham
Miss Lillies Bordello, Rozanna Purcell
Miss Waterford, Lisa Kavanagh
Miss Bourjois, Danielle Byrne
Miss Tipperary, Aisling Bourke
Miss VIP, Faye Rooney
Miss Cork, Maedhbh Kelly
Miss Kildare, Tiffany Connor-Stanley
Miss Onboard.ie, Emily Kelly
You can see all these girls and the rest of the finalists battle it out for the throne on July 9th at The Wright Venue, Co. Dublin. Can’t wait to see who makes it through, best of luck girls!
This morning we were up really early for a slot on TV3. Check it out:
I think it’s safe to say that our own Naomi Cullen found her calling in TV presenting and was total natural. Were hoping that none of the TV stations will swipe her from us, not sure we could ever replace her.
The models – Sarah McGoven, Dianna Donnelly and Georgia Salpa. All of which were fantastic and complimented the bikini’s incredibly. We have a few photo’s on the girls backstage and will post again on the blog in the future about how great they are.
Diana Donnelly is the winner of the Miss Universe Ireland 2009 Pagent! Twenty year old Diana was representing Club 92 and will be jetting off to the Atlantis Paradise Island, in Nassau, Bahamas for the Miss universe Final on August 23, 2009.
The Miss Universe Ireland 2009 competition takes place tonight in City West, there is massive excitement this year about this years competition. Check back tomorrow and we’ll tell you all about the excitement of the night and ofcourse Miss Universe Ireland 2009.
With the Miss Universe Ireland final just around the corner bookies favorite to win Diana Donnelly is far out in front of second favorite Rozanna Purcell. With some bookies even call in Evens for her to win!
Diana Donnelly Miss Universe Ireland
Photo – The Irish Sun
Stunning Diana Donnelly who is currently studying in UCD represents Miss Club 92, as a replacement for the Judy Kelleher who dropped out of the competition for personal reasons. Clearly Club 92 is full of very very pretty people, oh and it’s short listed for best club of the year award.
So the rest of us see the pictures, agree that they’re beautiful and think that they must wake up ever morning looking perfect. I’d say very few of us thing a single shoot in VIP magazine can take 4 days preparation and 9 hours to get perfect.
The “incident” referred to in the above Xpose clip is of Ingrid Marie Rivera (Miss Puerto Rico) 2008 which was investigated by police, relating to pepper spray was put in her make up and on her gown by another contestant.
“We thought at first it was an allergic reaction, or maybe nerves,” said pageant spokesman Harold Rosario. “But the second time, we knew it couldn’t have been a coincidence.” Later, Rivera’s garments and cosmetics tested positive for pepper spray.
Miss Puerto Rico Universe pageant director Magali Febles also told the AP that pageant officials were required to postpone the final day competition because of a bomb threat. Authorities said they searched the premises with dogs but did not discover any explosives.
So if you think beauty competitions are just pretty smiles and fun, think again, beauty is a very serious thing!
There’s been a slight change in the plans for sponsorship for the Miss Universe 2009 Ireland contest. www.TheBikiniShop.ie will no longer be sponsoring the whole bikini section but will still be featuring some of our bikinis in the bikini contest.
Miss Universe 2009 Contestants Meeting before Photo Shoot
The girls met yesterday morning for a photo shoot at St. Stephens Green Park and for some it was the first opportunity to get to know the other competitors.
The contestants for the final next Friday have changed slightly with previous favorite to win Judy Kelleher no longer will be taking part and being replaced by the equally talented and beautiful Diana Donnelly (20). So the contestant line up now is as follows:
Diana Donnelly (20) Miss Club 92
Haley Ryan (21) Miss news of the world
Rozanna Purcell (18) Miss Lillies Bordello
Hazel Britton (21) Miss Irish Sun
Alma McCabe (20) Miss Dublin City
Emma Quinlann (25) Miss Taboo Navan
Tara Lunch (19) Miss Laois
Claire Murray (19) Miss Belfast
Michelle Cummins (24) Miss Bondi
Eileen Crerar (18) Miss Bourjoi
Suzanne Jackson (24) Miss Hotspots
Aoife Turner (22) Miss Cork
Alyson Boyle (20) Miss UCD
Jill Macken (21) Miss Nass Court Hotel
Caitriona Hoy (19) Miss Spin South West
Bebhinn Mc Grath (19) Miss Waterford
Toni Harney (24) Miss Tipperary
Mary Beth O’Brien (22) Miss offaly
Kerri O’Connor (22) Miss Kerry
Ashley McNicolas (18) Miss Athlone
Tickets are still available for the final on Next 26th of June in the CityWest hotel at a cost of 120 Euro per ticket or 1000Euro for a table of 10.
Miss Universe 2009 is shaping up to be an awesome competition. Check out some of the 2009 Miss universe 2009 contestants:
Miss Universe Ireland will be announced on the Friday the 26th of June when 21 finalists battle it out to claim their place in the final. Judging by the pool of talent in the competition for Miss Ireland Universe, I think we have a great chance of winning this year. The next press photo call for Miss Universe Ireland is Thursday the 18th. We’ll be sure to bring you some pictures of the girls that will (hopefully) out sparkle the girls in the above Video!
Hopefully we’ll even get some great shots of the contestants as a preview to the Bikini competition section, all the bikinis for Miss Universe Ireland this year are supplied by www.TheBikiniShop.ie