Formation | 2017 |
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Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Dublin |
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Membership | Miss Grand International |
Official language | English |
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Miss Grand Ireland is a national beauty pageant title awarded to Irish representatives chosen to compete at the Miss Grand International pageant.[1][2][3][4] The title was first awarded in 2013 to the runner-up of Britain's Big Brother series 15, Ashleigh Coyle,[1] after she competed at the 2017 Miss International United Kingdom;[5][6] however, Coyle did not partake in the international tournament in Vietnam.
In 2017, the license of Miss Grand Ireland belonged to the Culcheth-based event planner, Pageant Girl UK, which is also the organizer of the Miss International United Kingdom contest.[6] After the license was not renewed in 2018, it was purchased by a Dublin beauty pageant coordinator group led by Manuel Munares the following year.[2]
Since the title of Miss Grand Ireland was introduced in 2017, no Miss Grand National was held to select the titleholders; all of them were either determined through another pageant or directly hand-picked by national licensees in that particular year.[1][2][3][4]
Initially, Ireland was expected to debut in Miss Grand International in 2017, when a Big Brother star from Derry, Ashleigh Coyle, was assigned to represent Ireland in the Miss Grand International 2017 in Vietnam.[1] Ashleigh obtained the title after she participated in the Miss International United Kingdom 2017 pageant where she was placed among the top 16 finalists.[5][6] She withdrew for undisclosed reasons.
Ireland made an actual debutant in 2019 when a Venezuelan Irish, Manuel Munares, purchased the license and assigned a Thai Irish beauty queen who previously competed at Miss Grand Thailand 2019, Sudawan Kumdee, as the replacement of the original representative Hollie Hersey, to join the international contest in Venezuela,[3][7][8] and she was placed among the top 20 finalists, which is considered the only and highest placement, as of 2023, the Irish delegates obtained in the Miss Grand International.[9] The following Irish representatives for Miss Grand International were all also appointed; no Miss Grand National was organized to determine the titleholders.[4][10]
The following is a list of Irish representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.
Year | Representative | Original national title | Competition performance | National director | |
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Placement | Other awards | ||||
2017 | Ashleigh Coyle[1] | Top 16 Miss International United Kingdom 2017[11] | Unable to compete | Holly Pirrie[6] | |
2019 | Hollie Hersey[2][3] | Appointed | Resigned[2][3] | Manuel Munares[2] | |
Sudawan Kumdee[3][7] | finalist | Top 20[9] | — | ||
2020 | Tirna Slevín[10] | Appointed | Unplaced[12] | — | |
2022 | Peace Olaniyi[4][13][14] | Appointed | Unplaced[14] | — | |
2023 | Rachel Slawson[15] | 2nd runner-up Miss Grand United States 2023[15] | Unplaced | — | Self-dominated |