Sinéad Noonan (born 1987) is an Irish actress, former model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Ireland 2008.Miss Ireland 2008
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Herald.ie (9 July 2008). Retrieved on 2016-02-08. Noonan was born in Dublin to Peter and Stephanie Noonan and grew up in

Dunboyne Dunboyne () is a town in County Meath, Ireland, north-west of Dublin city centre. It is a commuter town for Dublin. In the 20 years between the 1996 and 2016 censuses, the population of Dunboyne more than doubled from 3,080 to 7,272 inhabitan ...

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.Miss Ireland II
Missirelandpageant.ie. Retrieved on 8 February 2016. She attended St. Peter's College, Dunboyne where she excelled in drama, and now holds a qualification in Speech and Drama, as well as a certificate in Advance Acting. In 2008, Noonan represented County Meath at Miss Ireland in Dublin, where judges included music manager

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, actor Matt Di Angelo, and former Miss Ireland Pamela Flood, and emerged winner. Her victory enabled her to represent Ireland at Miss World 2008 where she made the top ten in the talent competition. Noonan, who appeared in several plays and short films, cited

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as her role model, and originally planned to open a Drama school and become an actress, but later launched a modelling career. Represented by Compton Model Agency and Assets, Noonan became the face of Lipsey's Autumn/Winter 2008 collection and Gillian Hughes hats. In 2009, Noonan told the ''

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'' she would welcome offers to pose nude, provided it was tasteful. Noonan has lived in Dubai while working for

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has also lived in London. Noonan has since retired from modelling, and currently resides in Ireland where she is a mother of one.Top 10 Miss Ireland winners: Where are they now?
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