The ‘cash stash’ at the media firm owned by model Rosanna Davison last year increased sharply to more than €130,000.

From fashion designers to actors and businesswomen to models, the next generation of young Irish people has thrown up some significant talent across a range of professions. These young people are among a pool of highly-accomplished achievers whose remarkable successes to date are bucking recessionary trends and putting their country back on the map.

Pictures from a gala dinner hosted by Steven Gerrard, at the opening night of Phantom of the Opera and the launch of the Chic Summer Festival

It’s that place where we spend eight hours a day, five days a week: for some it’s an office, for others it’s a boardroom, studio space, catwalk or kitchen.

Who chooses who becomes a supermodel? Deirdre Reynolds meets the people who make it happen

MODEL Georgia Salpa will reportedly earn €100,000 for her appearance on Celebrity Big Brother.

NEVER has the change from fairy princess to pantomime villain been so dramatic.

MISS University Holly Carpenter proved she was top of the class on Saturday as she was named Miss Ireland 2011.

HORSES were low on the list of priorities as the best and worst of fashion turned out for Ladies’ Day.

AN American teenager has been crowned Miss World, but Ireland’s Emma Waldron did her country proud by coming fourth in the contest and gaining the top European beauty title.

More than 50 celebrities have agreed to take to the stage this year in a special panto production for charity.

WHAT do you get when you cross grassroots GAA with journalist John Waters, model Andrea Roche and radio broadcaster George Hook?

FROM music to movies to motoring, Ireland’s richest celebrities are set to be unveiled and their wealth revealed.

DIAMONDS really are a girl’s best friend, as a fashionable woman from Kildare can testify.

ANDREA ROCHE swept to victory last night as the Most Stylish Woman at the Peter Mark VIP Style awards.

THE mother of model Katy French, who lived and died in the media spotlight, says she is still in the dark as to the circumstances surrounding her daughter’s death.

PHOTOGRAPHERS stood a respectable distance away to take shots of Katy French’s white-rose-sprayed coffin being taken into the church yesterday.

Top model Katy French remains in a serious condition in hospital, health officials said tonight.

Relatives of a top model who is seriously ill face a further anxious day at her hospital bedside as a friend said he believed she had the strength of character to recover.

LAWYERS, a postgraduate student with two degrees, a farmer’s daughter and student psychologists were just some of the stunning models vying for the title of Miss Ireland yesterday.

THE Jameson Dublin International Film Festival sparkled all the way to its end last night with the first screening of The Ballad of Jack and Rose, in the Savoy Cinema.

THE search for Miss Cork 2005 was launched last night.

ONE of Ireland’s top beauty contests is in an ugly mess.

ROSANNA DAVISON may have captivated the world but she’s still daddy’s little girl.

IRELAND’S Rosanna Davison remains the 4-1 hot favourite to triumph at tonight’s Miss World final in China.

FOR once Chris de Burgh had to stay in the shadows but he wasn’t complaining last night as he watched his beautiful daughter, Miss Ireland Rosanna Davidson, get a majestic send-off to the Miss World contest in China.

MOLLY MALONE yesterday added a jaunty air to the launch of Pink Ribbon Day, the key fundraising event in aid of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

A SCENE on the steps of the National Concert Hall this week provided an all-you-need-to-know lesson about celebrity, charisma and endurance in show business.