New faces

FROM filmmaking to fashion design and from sport to modelling, they are the hottest talents of the next generation, and some of our greatest hopes for the future.

This select group includes one or two well-known faces and names as well as those whose careers are on the ascendant at home and on the international stage.

Already a veteran actress at the ripe old age of 16, Carlow girl Saoirse Ronan has already been nominated for the highest accolade of her profession — an Academy Award, while Wicklow-born Katie Taylor claimed her third successive world boxing title in 2010 — and she’s still only 24.