Local ladies secure their Miss Ireland final place 

THERE was great excitement at the Hilton Hotel Dublin Airport last Sunday week for the Dublin heat of this year’s Miss Ireland competition. 

Megan Hurley (19), from Sutton: Miss Dublin North; Sophie Kelly (20), from Howth: Miss Dublin City; Bronwyn O’Connell (25), from Navan Road: Miss Dublin Central; and Chloe O’Loughlin (19), from Knocklyon: Miss Dublin South, impressed the judges and secured their place in the Miss Ireland 2019 Final.  

These four ladies and previously selected Miss Dublin West, Laura Doyle, will go forward to the Miss Ireland 2019 Grand Final which takes place in The Helix Theatre on Saturday, September 14. 

The current Miss Ireland is 24-year-old Aoife O’Sullivan from Cork and the last time Dublin won the overall title was when Raheny native Holly Carpenter triumphed in 2011.  

Brendan Marc Scully, co-owner of Miss Ireland and creative director, says: “Every year we are more excited than the last as the event becomes bigger and bigger. This is the 72nd year for Miss Ireland and following on from last year’s successful event, adding in our MR Ireland selection, we have a huge production planned for 2019 in The Helix Theatre in Dublin.”