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Ella Dalton sponsored by Chancellors Mills Hi, I’m Emma Dalton. I’m 21 years old, I work full time at Chancellors Mills Kilkenny. I am also a qualified make up artist and lash technician. I love to keep fit by going to the gym and going for daily walks.I’ve always had a great interest in fashion. In my spare time I enjoy socialising with my friends.Emma is looking forward to the selection night this weekend, with all her new friends in The Kilkenny Rose group.
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Emily Walshe sponsored by Inch House Hotel My name is Emily Walshe. I’m a 23 year old theatre nurse from Kilkenny and working up in Dublin in the Mater Hospital. I love travelling and having new adventures. I’m very family orientated and love coming home to Kilkenny to spend time with my family and visit all my friends back home. I’m very passionate about music and am self taught in multiple instruments and am a trained classical singer. I’m also very social and love going to different events so I’ve found doing The Rose so enjoyable to meet all the girls and go to all the events organised.
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Emma Kate O’Dwyer sponsored by PFK Dairy Systems Emma Kate O’Dwyer is from Glenmore, Co Kilkenny. I am currently working as a anaesthetic nurse in University Hospital Waterford. I have just finished a postgraduate diploma in Specialist Nursing from Trinity College Dublin. I am involved in Macra na Feirme where I have taken part in club, county and national activities. I am currently the chairperson of Waterford Macra na Feirme and sit on the national committee as a council representative. Recently, I won a National Leadership Award within the organisation. In my spare time I like to go to Macra activities around the country, spend time with family and friends, hiking and walking new trails, and recently baking.
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Grace Quigley sponsored by Drakelands Nursing Home I’m a psychiatric nurse. I graduated from WIT in 2019 and since then have been working as a nurse. I worked part time as a HCA and nurse in Drakelands Nursing Home Kilkenny, who are my sponsors. I love my job and all the people I work with. No day is the same and I have a great laugh with the residents. I grew up in the countryside about 15 kilometres from Kilkenny City. I like to travel and have been many places. I’ve been inside the pyramids in Egypt, France, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Italy and more. Before Covid I went on a trip along the West Coast of America. Recently I’ve enjoyed exploring closer to home, including the stairway to Heaven in Fermanagh and swimming in the Vico Baths in Dublin. In my free time, I go on long walks, on my own listening to podcasts or with my friends or mam.

