Models & The City...

News just in - Dublin city has more models per capita than ANY other city on the planet. FACT. Dublin has more models, modelling agencies, beauty pageants, model photocalls and percentage media coverage given over to our lovely girls than any other city in the world. Crazy, we know! Statistics show that every OTHER person in Dublin is a model. So if you're not one, chances are, the person beside you is...

Sarah Morrissey, Sarah McGovern & Karen Fitzpatrick

First we had the DOT COM bubble, and then we had the property developer explosion. Right now, we are in the middle of a modelling BOOM people. That's right. With some of our top ladies raking-in as much as 200 Euros per-day, this town is only feckin' teeming with leggy catwalk queens. Annnd you can't move for model agencies either – Assets, Compton, First Option, Morgan, B Scene, Andrea Roche – the list goes on and on... Don't even get us started on the number of beauty pageants there are.

Sarah Morrissey, Sarah McGovern, Karen Fitzpatrick, Blaithnaid McKenna, Yomiko

Chances are - if you've tried to walk down Grafton Street lately or enter St Stephen's Green, you've had to run the gauntlet of photographers and orange hued gals in their teeny-weenies, promoting anything from cars to ice creams. Ooooo yes. These girls will promote ANYTHING. Just give them a builder's hard-hat and a bikini, stick your product in their hand and hey presto! Instant media coverage. Guaranteed.

Sarah Morrissey, Sarah McGovern, Karen Fitzpatrick

And it's no wonder we've a model boom given that our national media publications freely give over 36.666 percent of their pages to lovely girls in their knickers pushing some product placement or another at their readers... Okay. Where do we get our statistics from we hear you cry? Same place everyone else in the media does - we make them up... Have you ever noticed how Ireland is always top of EVERY international poll EVER taken in the media? More news just in - Polls take up another 23.25 percent of the pages in our national papers... Makey-up stats ROCK!

Sarah Morrissey, Sarah McGovern, Karen Fitzpatrick, Blaithnaid McKenna, Yomiko

But just to prove our hypothesis, our snappers and weaker members of the public had to move out of the way as a herd of Assets models (we think they were Sarah Morrissey, Sarah McGovern, Karen Fitzpatrick, Blaithnaid McKenna and Yomiko) stampeded their way down the street yesterday with their big long slinky legs and manicured eyebrows... On that point, what DO you call a big bunch of models in a group? If this was Xpose they'd probably call them the 'glitterati' or the 'fashionistas' or some shite. Shhhhhudder... But don't worry folks - if by some chance you live in Dublin and are NOT a model, this boom is set to bust. Already The Glenda has got-out of modelling and gone to presenting, Michelle Doherty has done similar and Rosanna's looking towards TV too. The end of Irish modeling is nigh.