From Northern Irish fashion designer J.W. Anderson making serious waves with his gender-bending designs as creative director for the luxury Spanish fashion label Loewe to 22-year-old Carlow actress Saoirse Ronan making the coveted cover of Time magazine, there’s no denying that the year just gone was another incredibly triumphant one for Ireland’s next generation of game-changers.

Glenda Gilson and Paul McGrath.

The eldest daughter of U2 star Bono is at the centre of a security lapse which has seen her personal details posted online.

U2 frontman Bono's daughter was the centre of a $8m kidnap plot when she was just four years old.