5 days ago
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- Irish Independent
Meet Miss Galway 2025 – a young woman who wants to make a big difference
Nineteen-year-old Roisin was recently crowned Miss Galway 2025 and will compete for the title of Miss Ireland on June 14.
The Loughrea native told the Irish Independent she is very proud to represent her county nationally.
'I'm so excited, I cannot wait [for the final]. We have different rounds coming up and I just can't wait to be able to spread my voice and hopefully make a difference.
'My family were over the moon, our family in Galway goes back eight generations, we're very into history in our family. So to be able to represent Galway, especially as a woman, it's a big thing.'
Roisin is sponsored by ATU – where she studies business, marketing and sales with French - and Concern Worldwide is her chosen charity.
She explained: 'Education has always been really important to me so my sponsor being ATU is such a privilege to have.
'Concern Worldwide work with the poorest countries around the world, and they provide humanitarian aid, they help provide food, shelter, helping children and people in need.
'I chose Concern mainly because of the way the world is in at the minute. I believe that being born in Ireland is obviously such a privilege as opposed to be born in vulnerable countries.
She added: 'I just felt it was the right thing to do, how else can I help people at my age?'
Roisin explained she wants to use her platform to raise funds and awareness on what Concern Worldwide does, while she works to reach her dream job.
'I wanted to become miss Galway because I always wanted to help people and to work with charities, but I just found that I didn't have the machinery behind, I didn't have the name or the reputation to be able to do anything about it.
'So I kind of felt like 'no-one' as opposed to now that I have a title, I'll be able to do more about it.
She added about her future: 'I want to work with a humanitarian organization definitely, I want to travel the world and volunteer, that's my dream.
'I just want to give people the same dreams and ambitions, the same opportunities and the same hope, I want to give them the opportunities that I was given so easily, and that might feel impossible to them at the minute.'
She added how all this would have not been possible without her family and, in particular, her mom Siobhan.
'My mom did a lot of work around the world, she was in the red cross. So hearing her stories and how she helped people inspired me. She would be my idol.'
