Natasha Nic Gairbheith (born 1981) was crowned Miss

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on 5 July 2004, becoming the first ever fluent

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-speaker to win the competition. She competed at

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where she did not place. She is originally from

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. Before winning Miss Ireland, Natasha had completed a degree in Law and Politics at

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. She also acted in amateur productions at

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. Since her success in the contest she worked as a model and appeared on ''

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'', she was second to be knocked out. In 2006 she gave birth to a baby boy, Pádraig, named after the father Patrick J McDermott, a property developer, whom she was meant to marry in

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on 28 April 2007, but it was put back due to the death of the groom's niece and two children. They eventually married on 7 September 2007. The couple reside in

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