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Ep 3 Aoife Cogan, meet the Beauty Queen and Entrepreneur

Season 1, Ep. 3

Model Sarah McGovern and makeup artist Ken Boylan enjoy a candid chat with former Miss Ireland turned entrepreneur Aoife Cogan. Aoife shares her experiences of Ireland's modeling scene and what it felt like to be thrown in the deep end, still in her teens, as she walked alongside modelling legend Naomi Campbell at the Brown Thomas International Fashion Show, back in 2000. Today Aoife along with her husband and business partner Gordan D'Arcy established Formschool, a reformer pilates studio in the centre of Dublin.

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